As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. Bitly may be the authoritative champ of URL shorteners in the Twitterverse (before t.co / Twitter was propelled a year ago), however Redirecting has analytics covered. Creating tracking URLs is a simple process that can all be done from your Adjust Dashboard. At the top of the post creation area where you are working on your draft, you can change the slug.
This field should be used to compare broad categories of marketing you do (or may do in the future), like emails, cpc ads, postcards, etc. I would prefer bitly over google any given day, because of its smarter and powerful analytical tools. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them.
Custom URLs Let us say that you want to generate a custom URL. You can read more about this in our guide to deeplinking. URLs that are shortened with the bitly service use the bit.ly domain or any other generic domain that the service offers.[citation needed]Information about any short bitly URL is available at (that is, the URL with a plus sign appended), for example .[8] This allows users to see and check the long URL before visiting it.
If a campaign was sent close to 08:15 UTC, Google may not have had enough time to populate those results before MailChimp pulled analytics data, so it could take until the next time data is sent for the data to populate. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL. A short link which expires, or can be terminated, has some security advantages. 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.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that includes both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "CLICKID" and "UNIQUEVALUE" placeholder values. Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements. Click this number in your report to open a list of subscribers who clicked. While your link is legitimate, the link shortening service you’re using could cause it to be blocked. Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL. 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. In order to get your domain short enough to be effective as a URL shortener, you may want to consider these tips: Removing vowels: This is an effective way to shortener your organization's name and still making it easy to understand. And http:// www.tiny.cc is not a required format because the tiny.cc site happens to be configured without a subdomain (www. was made optional). is shorter and boiled down to only the required parts that make a URL functional: protocol + domain + top level domain (http:// + tiny + .cc).