Bitly offers all sorts of tracking stats about your URLs, including the number of clicks, the origins of those clicks, and the referring sites. It works almost immediately and you can shorten as much as you want, anytime. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. There are other methods of redirecting, but a 301 is the best choice if you are concerned about SEO. Other link tracker software use only cookies, which severely limits what you can track and how you track.
While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business. To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. The .ly namespace is controlled by Libya, you see, and the use of it is governed by strict rules. Easily manage multiple brands and business lines from one Tinycc account. After learning this bitter lesson, SEO became careful in selecting and placing links to their websites.
The secret to high click-through rates involves some of the principles that apply to search engine optimization: Write a descriptive and catchy headline that’s relevant to most of your followers and have a network of people who are truly interested in hearing from you. As another example, Google can't crawl and index the links inside of your Tinycc account.
That fact makes it easy to use only, in online profiles and anywhere else that you want to put a link and track it. More » Goo.gl Here’s Google’s very own URL shortener, which is a popular choice that’s useful for just getting the job done as quickly as possible. It is highly recommended to enable if you are using Google Analytics on your site. You can modify these in the ga call if necessary (lines 24 to 26). All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. The service will remember your visit and display a list of the links you’ve shortened. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 24 Jun 2011 More Firefox Vision Statement Thanks. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. A circumvention could be that a website provided its own shortlinks instead of relying on a third-party shortening service – but this is not common. If everything is set up correctly in Google Analytics, a record of this visit should appear in your Google Analytics account. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Some offer features that go beyond a basic link shortener.