It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones. Your web hosting service provider will have a firewall to protect sites from virus and malware.
Example for event tracking using the newer API:
Saving the Anchor Text with a Macro We’ll want to save the anchor text of the link. Use Custom Short URLs in blog posts to amplify my messages and promote my personal brand at the same time. Copy and paste the URL you create into your web browser's address bar, then press enter. The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue.
Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 6 Dec 2012 More RT : Our has been extended til Friday! Hover over the open or click percentage for any sent campaign to see the number of opens or clicks. Take a look at your social media feeds and you’ll see that link shortening has really caught on as a practice. If you look at an article in Wikipedia, you are bound to come across backlinks.
Before you get started, be sure to plan out your events first. In order for this to be enabled, you must integrate with App Indexing for Android and iOS. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. If your account has multiple link domains, the link domain used to rewrite links is dynamically chosen per-link, based on the destination of the link. However it does not include clicks on this link for other Links modules or any other types of modules. This is available using the following redirect parameters, encoded and placed within tracking links exactly as above. redirect_ios redirect_android redirect_windows redirect_windows-phone You can use any of these in combination, further if you were to use redirect_ios= and redirect= all iOS devices would be sent to the redirect_ios location and all other devices to the common redirect= location: 5. If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. If you see 'ga.js' or 'urchin.js' then you'll need to upgrade. Google has documented that process. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 22 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 22, 2011 Thanks. People have learned that shortened links can lead to any random spam page on the web. If no value is provided for ad_id on a click, then conversions in that click session are rejected with the "No Transaction ID provided" error. When URLs are requested, a web script begins with a template and fills in details by fetching information from a database. 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. An easier way to get to this website will be to copy/paste smallseotools.com/link-tracker in your search browser. Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. More » AdF.ly AdF.ly takes an interesting approach to link shortening by offering its users the opportunity to earn money by using its service.