If you're comfortable with Web hosting and setting up simple PHP and mySQL applications, there are several free scripts you can use to set up a URL shortener on your own server, giving you much more control. As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. The Google Analytics account has to be set up and configured before the tracked campaign is sent.
On the Setup step, provide a title for the email in the Google Analytics title for email field. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard.
Search engines care about redirects because when they see one, they need to decide how to pass link popularity. They began to allow publishers to track the links they posted with analytics. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks). ClickMeter is used by several thousand of happy affiliates and work with hundreds of affiliate programs. Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. Once you are sure that your WordPress site does not have Google Analytics code, go to Settings » Google Analytics.
3. Tinyurl.com Most internet users (including me) thought that Bitly is the first ever URL shortener. For example, links that point to a page on will rewritten with any available link subdomain sharing that domain (e.g. ). By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do. With a Professional account, you can use any of our alternative domain names for your tracking links. Instead, they create a “tracking link” that will act as a redirect to the actual landing page or website URL.
Tracking Search Traffic to the PDF Add a URL parameter to every link pointing to each PDF document on your site. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. Your brand, your name–it’s carried across into the very links that you are sharing. This helps let people know they aren’t spam. As long as your custom domain relates to your brand and you use it consistently, people will know that the links you are sharing have been vetted by you. This app quickly sees which of your links are more efficient in driving incoming traffic to your site. For a list of the file system control codes that perform operations on object IDs, see File Management Control Codes.