Short links
Short links are concise placeholders that replace full length hyperlinks in message formats that limit how many characters you can use in a message. Each short links consists of a short link domain and a unique link identifier.
For example, when recipients share your message on social networks, a short link to the web page version can avoid exceeding character limits on Twitter. A full length hyperlink, especially links in Deliver that include tracking parameters, can easily exceed the character limit for a tweet.
A typical full length hyperlink might appear as follows when the system converts the link to a branded URL and applies link tracking parameters.
http://content.example.online.com/deliverIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5a=46r=582m=5l=2e=2x=2456617.0 |
(91 characters)
As a short link, the same link might appear in the message as follows.
http://e.online.com/a3b45 |
(25 characters)
In this example, example.online.com is the email domain and e.online.com is the short link domain.
When you add a short link to a communication, you specify a target URL and the short link domain that you want to use. The following guidelines apply to working with short links.
- You can request multiple short link domains for your hosted messaging account.
- You can add multiple short links to a communication.
- You can use only one short link domain in each communication.