Typically, data: and javascript: URLs are not supported for security reasons. Low cost way to start a personal brand and make vanity URLs. Affiliate Click ID & Unique Values Click IDs and other unique values (like user hashes and programmatic API values) often reference individual clicks or sessions in other tracking systems. The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. If you choose to edit the default title, make sure you don't include any special characters. Click the title of the email you want to work with.
Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. You can freely combine multi-platform trackers with deep links and fallbacks. But the details of how to do this are well out of the scope of this article. Adding tracking directly to your site If you have added the Analytics tracking code directly to your site, you can copy and paste the script below into your own pages to set up Event tracking for outbound links.
They aren't required for testing, only being logged into your HasOffers account is required to treat the click as a test link. Some email clients impose a length limit at which lines are automatically broken; requiring the user to paste a long URL back together, rather than just clicking on it. Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. Undo Undo Shorten URL Retweeted TechCrunchVerified account @TechCrunch 17 May 2011 More Amazon Buys The A. It is a legitimate concern that many existing URL shortening services may not have a sustainable business model in the long term.[12] In late 2009, the Internet Archive started the "301 Works" projects,[25] together with twenty collaborating companies (initially), whose short URLs will be preserved by the project.[12] The URL shortening service ur1.ca provides its entire database as a file download, so if its website stops working, other websites may be able to provide ways to correct broken links to URLs shortened with its service. All links will automatically be rewritten when they are included in your emails, wrapped in a unique tracking URL that uses the Link Domain you have set on your Settings Page. To activate link tracking for a given template or campaign, within its settings, simply ensure that the Link Tracking option is set to Yes. We recommend turning on link tracking; if link tracking is disabled, the attribution described above will not function.
For example, your website has fifteen content pages. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Go to my.sailthru.com/pages and click a link to a hosted page.
When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.