The custom tracking link page enables converting a regular custom tracking link to OneLink™. Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. The name of your event is good to use for easy tracking. • Website URL: Paste the event page URL that you copied from Eventbrite.
It would be advisable first to list all the links to your site and if you find any suspicious links, use this utility to examine it. To view individual link results, follow these steps. Change http to https and then load the resulting URL.
A summary of this traffic is found in your Google Analytics reporting under Traffic Sources. Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button.
Click outside the box to update your generated tracking link. The process of copying and pasting a URL is almost a no-brainer, but often we come across those long URLs that look absolutely atrocious when pasting them in an email or on in a forum thread. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. This way they can use shortened URLs but still give people confidence about where the link will lead. Publish one custom branded short link on my business card, then keep the destination URL updated so that people are always taken to my latest blog post when they visit. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. If you already have Google Analytics code inserted in to your WordPress blog, remove that code. This appends one of the two following parameters to the tracking link: url_id random_url When the url_id parameter is added to the tracking link, the numerical ID value references the ID of an additional offer URL in the offer that the affiliate can redirect traffic to: If there is more than one offer URL added in the offer, there will also be an option to select a random URL from the list. 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. Yet, without a tracker, you’re unable to identify users that have visited your webpage organically. Generate Creative Code If you've added creative assets to the offer, there will be a dropdown menu below the tracking link where you can select the desired creative: When the creative is selected, the generated creative ad tag code for the publisher and offer appears in a new text box. Macro Name: element text Macro Type: Custom JavaScript Custom Javascript: The .textContent property is built into most browsers which is nice, but you can always adapt the macro to use innerHTML or innerText depending on your needs. Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. Parts of a URL Note that www. is only a subdomain. TicketSpice offers premium services at additional cost. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered. But be aware that even if you never intend to share a link, search engines own some web based services like Gmail, Google Drive or Google Docs (same applies to Bing and Outlook.com / OneDrive) links can be indexed, even if located inside of "private" online documents and emails.