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The 8 best URL shorteners for engagement and tracking in 2022

Sprout Social

Since the beginning of the World Wide Web, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) have been one of the primary methods for jumping from one webpage to another. Unfortunately, URLs become long and complex as subdomains, subdirectories and tracking codes are added. As social media grew in popularity, lengthy URLs began to present a problem.

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Selling Your Domain Name with LeadRefs

Bill Hartzer

You never know what set of keywords will be the next big thing, so you buy several domains with several different combinations of keywords. Many affiliate marketers buy tons, and tons of these types of domains, and work to get those domains ranked in the search engines. Just for fun I tried “Facebook.com”.

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Google Removing Domain Names From Search Results Increases Internet User Vulnerability

Bill Hartzer

On Thursday, April 16, 2015, Google announced that they are beginning to remove the domain name from the mobile search results. Rather than displaying a URL in the search results or a domain name, Google has begun to display a website name or a website name and a breadcrumb of the website’s page.

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How to Properly Redirect a Domain Name and Get Link Credit

Bill Hartzer

I recently received an email from Duane Long asking a question about redirecting a domain name that he had recently purchased. He is trying to redirect the domain name so that he can get the proper link credit; so that the links from the domain name he bought is credited to his current, live website.

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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check the Whois on Your Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

Technically speaking, Whois is is a query/response protocol which is widely used for querying an official database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. There are several things that you need to take a look at on the domain name’s whois record.

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How to Use Google Tag Manager to Manage the Facebook Pixel and Events

Jon Loomer

Select “Page View” as your trigger type. Select “Some Page Views” and then “Page URL” from the drop-down. You’ll use Page URL “contains” and then paste in everything from your landing page URL after the domain name (including “/ and /”).

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How to start the control panel?

BeingOptimist

Set a proper hostname if you still need one, as most control panels require a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) before the installation file can run. You can access and activate the control panel in two ways: client area and direct login URL. Direct login URL. link] domain name>:1500/ispmgr.