Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. The general idea people have about Google Analytics is that it tells you how many vistors and pageviews you are getting, where the traffic is coming from, and what content is popular on your website. Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service. To search for name spaces Search four directory levels down from the last directory.
You can add parameters that help track certain campaigns or store values from an affiliate's tracking system. Upgrade my links by putting my name in a custom domain and sharing with friends, family and on social media. Our link service measures information such as how many times a link has been clicked, which is an important quality signal in determining how relevant and interesting each Tweet is when compared to similar Tweets.
Google’s URL Shortener is handy, though it does allow anyone to access the public analytics on each link. You can’t deny the usefulness of them with social media (especially Twitter) and the additional layer of analytics you can get on your links. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. If, when creating a short link, you are logged out, you'll need to save the passcode, because it is the only thing that gives edit rights.
Many web developers pass descriptive attributes in the URL to represent data hierarchies, command structures, transaction paths or session information. This may sometimes be done using short, CAPTCHA-protected URLs, but this is not common.[3] Makers of URL shorteners usually register domain names with less popular or esoteric Top-level domains in order to achieve a short URL and a catchy name, often using domain hacks. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally powerful server-side analytics engine, and unlike the latter, does not require any access to the server.
The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around. Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection. If you do nothing but add the tracking script to your pages, you’ll be faced with an endless stream of data and reports about user activity on your site. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 11 May 2011 More Statistics for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Thanks. 4. Ow.ly Ow.ly is another URL shortener that doesn’t require you to see ads. The process must be fast, not handle clicks which have been deactivated by other processes and ensure links work even if the Analytics event fails. For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es". If you’re linking from one site using Analytics to another using Analytics Google could record that relationship. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier. Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. You can use up to one source parameter and five sub ID parameters, each of which appear in your stats and conversion reports.