That fact makes it easy to use only, in online profiles and anywhere else that you want to put a link and track it. However, you or your publisher may want to use additional parameters to store information. Use this feature to keep data longer than 30 days, send it to clients, or do custom analysis. Hover over the open or click percentage for any sent campaign to see the number of opens or clicks. How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing?
To manage click tracking in the plain-text version of your campaign, check or uncheck Track plain-text clicks. Click Save. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. On the left side of the offer's page, find the Generate Tracking panel and select the publisher from the Affiliate dropdown menu.
If the link you are interested in is long (more than 60 characters), copy and paste the URL into a web page that creates a short link. Once you've done so, you'll be able to use the payout parameter: Warning: This setting can be prone to abuse and should only be used for internal campaigns.
They are available for a variety of programming languages; check the page with libraries and samples for more details. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. There are other masking or cloaking techniques but most are frowned on by search engines due to potential for abuse and usually make use of javascript, server configuration or scripting languages such as php or perl. As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability.
Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. Creating the Link Click Listener The Link Click Listener tag allows you to capture user click events on all or specific targeted links. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. D) The Anchor Text they're using E) Links that are just discovered (a new, awesome feature in OSE) Using this information you can get a better idea of who is already linking to you in order to reach out and connect. Top-level domains of countries such as Libya (.ly), Samoa (.ws), Mongolia (.mn), Malaysia (.my) and Liechtenstein (.li) have been used as well as many others. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 4 Dec 2012 More Check us out on , too! Transnational law[edit] Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year. Note: If you will implement HSTS on your primary domain only, allowing your link domain to remain accessible via HTTP, the following actions are not needed. Move up one directory and repeat steps 1 and 2 another three times, which can yield results if the object has moved nearby. It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page.