These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case). When using Google Analytics to track your link, the most common setup is to have the Javascript tracking code for Google Analytics placed on a page where your contacts visit. To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. Whatever the case, the answer seems to be using a link shortener.
Don’t worry so much about the whole base64 thing though. Just keep in mind that there are a couple more characters in this option as compared to others like Bit.ly, Goo.gl and Ow.ly, so it's not exactly the shortest URL shortener.The end variable - in your example, the “KqzGgBhM5” - is a reference number that is checked against a database. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. TinyURL was used by early bloggers before many of these other services were around.
This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL. The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general. Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark. Troubleshooting Consider these possibilities if you see behavior you don't expect.
WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. There are a lot of things that search engines never find because it's not posted on the web in a fashion that they can interpret. Before you send your campaign, make a note of these unique IDs so you'll know which Google Analytics title goes with which combination of your campaign. 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.
Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. This should not contain information already in the campaign name or medium fields. Tracking Opened Emails Companies running email campaigns often want to be able to track how many times their emails were opened. I don’t know about you, but anytime you want to switch from Bitly for other alternative, you can refer to the following list. Without tracking those metrics, how do you know which method is working the best? Bitly searches its database for the key UOLsVl and, if it finds that key in its database, it automatically redirects the browser to the associated web page, in this case .