You can use click tracking tools, or Google analytics track clicks to external sites to check clicks coming from external links to your website and vice versa. However it does not include clicks on this link for other Links modules or any other types of modules.
Unfortunately, the data would be so inconsistent as to be unreliable. Masking means that your affiliate URL never becomes visible in a browser address bar. • A very simple method if you have your own website is to create a blank html page and paste the following code into the blank page (substituting your affiliate URL). Then name the html page something that makes sense for the application such as . You'll also get detailed statistics for every link when you sign up for an account, and you're paid via PayPal for payouts as low as $5. More » Bit.do Bit.do is another great alternative that's both simple and powerful. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. Another privacy problem is that many services' shortened URL format is small enough that it is vulnerable to brute-force search.
In the meantime, here’s the basic breakdown of how a link click event tag works: Tag Name: Give the tag a name that makes sense to you. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[26] Blocking and banning[edit] Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. If you need short links for different websites, you can manage many domains in your account. If a member uses a URL and then changes it, that URL will be unavailable for use by other members for six months. Want to take your link tracking to the next level? These bracketed phrases will be automatically replaced with the correct values by the partner’s ad server. {creative_name} If {creative_name} is a supported placeholder by the media partner, correct creative data will be entered into the creative parameter; this lets Adjust automatically create trackers for each creative.
This example assumes that you are using the analytics.js tracking code. Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period. So in the next few pages, you will learn how to shorten links for Twitter. To shorten links for Twitter, you don’t need to do too much techy stuff. The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around. Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way. Click Trackers, select NEW TRACKER and the Adjust Tracker Wizard will open up.
So if your link is as long as a giraffes neck, coupled with the rest of the tweet, you will definitely find yourself truncating the text and even break the whole thing. Additionally, if the file is moved outside the domain or within a workgroup, it is found. Creating a shortened page slug is simple in WordPress. For segment A, the value will be “A”, for B, “B” and “Final” for the Final version of the AB Winner/Auto Winner test. Google which is a brilliant search engine decided to examine these numerous links and when its crawler discovered that the links were spam links it blacklisted the site and sent it into oblivion. Bitly has a lot of advanced features and tools over google. Downloadable Reports With a Professional account, you can download your data any time for offline use. TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. Last clicked The most recent date and time someone clicked a tracked link in your campaign. Subscribe See why 200,000 companies worldwide love Campaign Monitor. When you are editing or previewing a post, the number in the URL (on the adddress bar) is the post ID.I haven’t heard of any account getting banned for using a URL shortener, so you should be in the clear to use any URL shortener of your choice. Note These link tracking schemes are transparent to the end-user.