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Rainmaker
3,071,489
Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers
Serving the Greater Phoenix and Scottsdale Metropolitan Area - Scottsdale, AZ
Haven Express @ Keller Williams Arizona Realty

If you don't use the short url you woon't get any clicks...

Feb 04, 2018 05:20 AM
Rainmaker
1,084,061
Ginger Harper
Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team - Southport, NC
Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!

Thanks for all of the feed back..I will move forward on this..

May 29, 2015 11:30 AM
Rainmaker
4,319,419
Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Andover, MA
Andover, MA: Andover Luxury Homes For Sale

Ginger Harper promote your short url on social media and any other marketing you do. And you get 'views' when a consumer click on it - call it Short URL clicks.

May 28, 2015 04:40 PM
Rainmaker
2,224,473
Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

You have already gotten the answer to what a short URL click is. I guess there are some advantage to this on places like twitter, but I do use this on my google+ account. I don't know if there is an advantage. 

May 28, 2015 02:27 PM
Ambassador
3,164,294
Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Here is a post I wrote on the topic about what they are and how I use them, hope it's helpful.

May 28, 2015 02:16 PM
Rainmaker
3,988,007
Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN
The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

Someone would have to click on the short url link for you to get a click. The short links are good to use when posting on other social media channels especially Twitter where your characters are so limited. You can get a short url for each of your AR blog posts by clicking the box on the top right corner of the post that says Short URL. This will generate on for you. You can also shorten other urls that are not your ActiveRain posts. I go to a website that allows me to get a shortened version. Some urls or just too long.

May 28, 2015 01:34 PM
Rainmaker
58,349
Jennifer Provencio
San Diego County and Central Valley - Oceanside, CA
The Reverse Mortgage Speciailist

Hi Ginger,

A short URL is a shortened version of a longer URL. For example, here is the link for this page: http://activerain.com/questions/show/35181/can-anybody-tell-me-how-to-get-short-url-clicks-and-what-is-a-short-url-click-

If I wanted to shorten it, I would go to http://tinyurl.com and created this one: http://tinyurl.com/pxu4bm2

So instead of having 128 characters it now has 26. Hope that makes sense :)

May 28, 2015 12:21 PM