Launch your Web browser and go to the Web page for your preferred URL shortening service. This code defines the tracking action and delays loading of the outbound link by 100 milliseconds so that Google Analytics can track the click: Insert this code in addition to the standard Google Analytics tracking code for the page. Then reconnect with the same interested audience when my sequel is ready to be released. Another consideration is that some countries also restrict what content can be used their TLDs, so if you intend in shortening content that might be in violation of these laws, you'll need to find another TLD. 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. Link Tracking Limitations The distributed link tracking services are available only on the NTFS file system, and are only available for link sources on NTFS 3.
To specify the internal links that are not tracked, in the Internal Filters box type all or part of the internal URL of the link target. Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now.
In other words, if you can discover which half of your advertising isn’t working, you can focus only on the half that is working, you can literally double your profits. Alternate and Custom Domains Do you love our service, but hate our domain name? Use custom domains to multiply click-throughs and increase the public's awareness of my brands. At Track Number Of Times This Link Is Clicked? mark the check box to enable link tracking. - OR - unmark the check box to disable it. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages.
Get app deep links with the URL Shortener The URL Shortener also offers the capability of having short links deep link to content in your mobile apps. Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements. Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. Every web page or resource is specified by a unique URL, which means the internet consists of billions of URLs.
I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them. Because we’re creating an event to track clicks on a specific type of link! It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones. For more information on how to set up Google Analytics tracking manually, take a look at Google's help pages for URL building and tagging your 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. More over, all these statistics & reports come with no cost. Shorter URLs are appealing to look at, looks stylish and at the same time does all the functions that a normal URL is supposed to do. Some URL shortening service providers have found themselves on spam blacklists, because of the use of their redirect services by sites trying to bypass those very same blacklists. The unknown levels will be shown as ‘unknown’ in your dashboard when there is data for other sublevels. Transnational law[edit] Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles. We wanted to see: A) How many page views the PDFs were getting B) How long people were staying on these PDFs C) How prone they were to bouncing (just in case we needed to redesign them) D) The links we were getting to the PDFs E) Where those links were coming from The solution was pretty simple. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”. The trickiest part of tagging links in an email is coming up with a consistent naming convention for each variable. Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. For example, to expand , send the following request: GET For instance, you could issue the following curl command: curl '' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "", "status": "OK" } id is the short URL you passed in. longUrl is the long URL to which it expands.