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Go Short URL and Short URL V3 Comparison Chart
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| Built-in user's manual. The user's manual is always handy in the control panel. Just a click away whenever you have a question. |  |
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| Create short URLs one at a time or in bulk. One or many URLs can be pasted into a textarea box of the control panel. Click a button and all are shortened for you. | |
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| Shorten all http://... URLs in entire text document. This features allows you to paste a text document into a control panel page. The software will scan the document for http://... URLs and convert them into short URLs. You get your document back with the short URLs already edited in. | |
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| Shorten all ftp://... and mailto:... URLs in entire text document. Same as above except in addition to http://... URLs, either or both ftp://... and mailto:... URLs may be shortened in the text document. | |
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| Fast paste 'n click short URL creation. (Like tinyurl and other URL shortening services) Put the page in a password-protected directory for quick access. No additional password needed. Just paste the URL and copy the shortened one. (The page can be made publicly available as a service, if you wish. If you do make it publicly accessible, please be aware spammers will likely use it, putting short URLs with your domain name into their outgoing spew.) | |
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| Random generated short URL alias. (like http://example.com/go/i8yer4t) Aliases are automatically assigned. | |
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Custom short URL alias. (like http://example.com/go/BookSale) Make meaningful aliases, ones you can remember and make sense to the people clicking on them. | |
| Edit/Delete alias records. This is a powerful feature. Change the destination URL if, for example, you published the short URL in a widely distributed PDF and the link becomes a 404 or a linked affiliate program goes defunct. | |
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| Each alias record may be tagged with key words. Tags aid in searches for editing or matching for obtaining statistics. | |
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| Each alias record may contain a private comment. Things you need to remember about the alias can be typed here. | |
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| Choice of redirect type for each alias. When the browser is redirected, it can be redirected with status code "301 Moved Permanently" or status code "302 Found." | |
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| Unlimited campaign codes for every alias. Use the same alias in web pages, emails, forum posts, and give each a different campaign code for separate statistics. No need to go back to the control panel to assign campaign codes, they are automatically recognized. | |
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| Affiliate codes are sticky. Affiliate codes or other URL parameter information may be appended to alias URLs, just like for regular URLs. Your affiliates can be provided with short URLs, with or without campaign codes; they add their affiliate ID. When the browser is redirected, the URL parameter information is appended automatically to the destination URL. Example: |
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| Click statistics by date range and selected aliases. Click totals for each alias. Separate click totals for alias' campaign codes. All clicks on the page grand totaled. Know how many clicks your affiliate links are getting, your various ads or banners, your twitter and other social media links. Satisfy your curiosity. | |
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| Click sources (traffic sources) by date range and selected aliases. Each known traffic source is listed for every alias and for every alias' campaign code. Know where your traffic is coming from. | |
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| Omit your own IP address for more accurate statistics and traffic sources. | |
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| Export click records. All click records in the MySQL table can be downloaded as a CSV file. The CSV file can be imported into Excel, OpenOffice.org, and other spreadsheet software. | |
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| A default redirect URL may be specified in case of invalid or missing alias. If implemented, then those who play with your links to see what they can find always end up at your default page. Same with those who click on links with an alias already deleted from the database. | |
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