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> A lot of marketing companies like to share short and branded custom links on social media and later check the click and other stats to see the conversion rate
by Rjevski 8y ago
> A lot of marketing companies like to share short and branded custom links on social media and later check the click and other stats to see the conversion rate.
True, but as an user it does not serve me (quite the contrary actually, as it invades my privacy), so my point (and habit) of never clicking into shortened links still stands. I’m actually surprised brands would prefer shady-looking links over linking to their own domain directly.
Not to mention, you can do analytics server-side on the page you’re linking to without having to have an intermediary system & extra redirect.
> Anyhow, I created this as a personal project for learning purpose but I can see it's use cases.
Quite impressive actually, seems very feature-complete and well built. Keep up the good work!
- bspammer 8y agoJust to add on, sometimes it's useful to be able to link to large query strings without large numbers of characters in situations where there's no way to copy and paste (for example any form of print media). Many internet giants have set up their own link shorteners for this very purpose: see https://goo.gl/ https://goo.gl/ and https://t.co/ https://t.co/