Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks. I have been using this tool myself for the past half year and have to say it’s the most advanced and easiest tool to use for tracking your website actions. URL shortening service Bitly was accessed more than 2 Billion times in November 2009. Instead, they create a “tracking link” that will act as a redirect to the actual landing page or website URL. You can use up to one source parameter and five sub ID parameters, each of which appear in your stats and conversion reports. Other Helpful Macros If you have sites that you frequently link out to or have partnerships with, you might want to roll up the click events by domain name.
When you check the box to enable tracking, we'll show the campaign title as it will appear in your Google Analytics account after the campaign is sent. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 10 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 10, 2011 Thanks. So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful.
What Link Shorteners Do (And Don’t Do) Link shorteners were originally created to address stubborn email systems that wrapped an email after 80 characters and broke any long URLs that might have been in the message. If you create a tracker in the dashboard - let’s say we call it “AdNetwork” - you’ll receive a URL like: Onto this URL, you are able to add the “campaign” parameter to segment users into different campaigns: Any user clicking on a URL with the “campaign=CAMPAIGN_1” parameter would be assigned to the “CAMPAIGN_1” sublevel within your top network tracker “AdNetwork”.
You can safely preview a short link by adding ~ or = to the end of the URL, for instance: Bookmarklets Shorten and share any page at the click of a bookmark, without installing extensions or apps. Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites. Dead simple to manage multiple custom domains and multiple clients from a single account Consistent branding impression. Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that uses 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 "AFFSUB" and "SOURCE" placeholder values.
Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[26] Blocking and banning[edit] Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. To quote John Wanamaker, the father of modern advertising: So which half of your advertising is a waste of money? The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around. Affiliate Click ID & Unique Values Click IDs and other unique values (like user hashes and programmatic API values) often reference individual clicks or sessions in other tracking systems. Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. After that, it’s up to you to decide what you need. Its popularity influenced the creation of at least 100 similar websites,[9] although most are simply domain alternatives. Reach new audiences by tapping Eventbrite’s 50 million active ticket buyers. In this article: Using Google Tag Manager If you use Google Tag Manager to manage your Analytics tracking, follow the instructions in Analytics Events to implement events.