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If your website has thousands of backlinks, you can forget about physically sitting down and tracking each link. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL. I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them.
Set up conversion tracking in Google Analytics to track contacts from clicks to purchases on your website. Yourls is a way to homebrew your own shortened links so that you don’t have to rely on that middleman. You can also learn how to track clicks on a link in Google analytics. Then reconnect with the same interested audience when my sequel is ready to be released. Links to files on removable media are not maintained. Use custom domains to multiply click-throughs and increase the public's awareness of my brands.
This should be for the link domain only; no wildcards. It depends on the amount of point of interest you need to track. 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. It is simple to change your permalink structure, though if you have been blogging for a while you will need to redirect your old URLs to the new permalinks. If you use a third-party for some of your emails, you might use that third-party's name. They just want it to be short, make the bezels small or remove it completely.
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