Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites. Top links clicked The URLs that were clicked the most in your campaign. View Click Results on the Links Page The Links page tells you how each URL performed in the campaign. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it.
An auth token is necessary in order to look up a user's history. Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS. The tracking link would then look something like this: If you add the random_url parameter, then the ad server selects an offer URL at random from the offer (including the default offer URL) and redirects the user to that page. The group link will then open the web pages in order with a control bar at the top of the browser. Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent * using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it. */ var trackOutboundLink = function(url) { ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, { 'transport': 'beacon', 'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;} }); } You'll also need to add (or modify) the onclick attribute to your links. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey.
Although the earnings are small, it can certainly add up if you can attract a lot of clicks. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. Click on the space to enter your link and paste it there. If done properly you should have "" on the above box.
To help you get an idea of what the data collected by autotrack might look like, this demo includes visualizations of the actual data captured by using autotrack on this site. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks. What is a URL Shortener | Uses and Advantages Now, what does a URL shortener do? In the input box that appears, enter a placeholder value for your publisher so they know where to replace values. Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves.
Google Analytics doesn’t “listen” for link click events by default, so that’s why we have to go the extra work of creating a link click listener tag. Also, the tracking service does not recognize a new NTFS file system volume until the system is re-booted. There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff. With our unique CTID, you are much less dependent on cookies, and have more reliable data. Use A Custom Domain With Link Shorteners With services like Domainr and IWantMyName, you can easily get a custom domain to use with link shorteners. To enable outbound link tracking, you need to add a little javascript to your website, and add a little code with each outgoing link that you want to track. A common mistake is to duplicate information in this field from other fields. When you enable the tracking of downloads, only the file types that you specify are tracked. This will create an instant redirect from your domain name to affiliate URL. ( --> ) The customer will never see the destination URL in their browser address bar ahead of time. If, for some reason, you're using a custom HTML tag in Google Tag Manager, then hopefully you'll see 'analytics.js' in the code. Nesbitt, Scott (7 February 2010). "Shorter Is Sweeter: A Look at URL Shorteners".Welcome to TinyURL!™ Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? However, standard analytics tools only do a great job in describing activities within the website without dealing too much with your links outside your website. The last thing that any website owner wants is to discover that his or her website has been blacklisted and removed from search engines. Google URL Shortener: This shortener is straight from Google and will be viewed as a Goo(dot)gl.