Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right? Each time a contact clicks a link in the campaign, the tracking information redirects them through MailChimp's servers and sends them to the intended web address.
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. You can modify these in the ga call if necessary (lines 24 to 26). 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. For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es". While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business.
These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type-out or distribute. It’s pretty cool because you don’t have to add it as a browser extension, but as a link to your Bitly account that shows up in the the sidebar.
Tracking Opened Emails Companies running email campaigns often want to be able to track how many times their emails were opened. Before going to the tutorial check the working example: Working URL Shortener website: Below is the example of Google URL Shortener API with JavaScript.
URL:When a request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is searched for an associated URL. This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. Google which is a brilliant search engine decided to examine these numerous links and when its crawler discovered that the links were spam links it blacklisted the site and sent it into oblivion. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways. In this case you can use Google’s Disavow Link tool in Google Webmaster Tools to let Google know that you don’t approve of that link. Namely, I want to make sure that if have an absolute internal URL with www vs non-www that I capture both cases. When you add Google Analytics tracking to an email campaign, we supply a default title for your campaign that will appear in your Google Analytics account and your tracking URLs.