You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. Copy and paste the URL you create into your web browser's address bar, then press enter. If you set up tracking this way, you won't be able to see the Google Analytics statistics in MailChimp.
With any premium account, just select the "public tracking" option for your link and share the tracking page with your client. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 18 May 2011 More Revision 357: Removed: piurl.com, tr.im, kl.am; Added: min.ms, mrte.ch, v.gd; Thanks.
An example Turn this URL: X0DER&pf_rd_s=center-10&pf_rd_r=11EYKTN682A79T370AM3&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1270985982&pf_rd_i=B002Y27P3M into this TinyURL: Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? The distributed link tracking service maintains file links for the following situations that occur within a domain: The link source file is moved from one NTFS file system volume to another within the same domain. They can hide their nefarious links in a shortened URL meaning people either clicked on the links and quickly learned to either never trust a shortened link, or to always use a link extraction site (e.g. WhereDoesThisLinkGo) to see where the shortened link actually went before they clicked. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data. Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover. 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.
The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. Clicking on it will show you a list of outgoing URL(s) users clicked on your website. Yourls is a way to homebrew your own shortened links so that you don’t have to rely on that middleman.
Or you can use a utility to display all the backlinks to your site and copy them from there. This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress. You can also determine if the links coming to your PDF are negative links coming from a website you don’t want to be affiliated with. Tag each link in an email with a different ad content so that you can see which links get clicked on the most, and how traffic from each link compares once the visitors are on the site. Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable. Browse our list for inspiration: You'll likely get some great ideas just look at what others have done! Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. Use insights from tracking reports to understand who my customers are, spot product micro trends and ratchet up results on the next campaign. If you leave a middle-rank parameter empty, we still use the data in your lower-level parameters. You can use this service with or without an account. Click the “Details” link beside the shortened URL in Goo.gl to view basic click statistics, including the number of people who clicked the link on your Facebook wall.