In addition to creating short URL versions in the sidebar, you can get personalized stats about your Bitly links, create Tweets right from within the sidebar, and see who is linking to your URL on Twitter, FriendFeed and blog comments. Link shortening service vb.ly was shut down back in 2010 by Libya, which leads to the problematic fact of link shortening: you depend upon a third-party service to deliver visitors through your shortened links.
IP Addresses and Location With any premium account, you can view the real-time location and geographic data for every visitor. On 14 August 2009 WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.[11] In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2. Instead, think of source as a label identifying where the email came from or the kind of email it is.
Click the name of the report you want to work with. If you go to that website, there is an edit box near the top of the page where you can paste in a longer URL for a web page, such as , and then click on the Shorten button. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. TinyURL was used by early bloggers before many of these other services were around. The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue. TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking.
Additionally, by collecting this data you will be able to create custom segments in Google Analytics to view the behavior of these audience members if needed.Contents Sailthru can track the clicks of links in your emails, and attribute those clicks back to the unique customer. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002.
Therefore, if a link source is moved to a FAT file system volume the tracking information is lost. If you set up tracking this way, you won't be able to see the Google Analytics statistics in MailChimp. However, Google Analytics can also provide you information about what users do when they come on your website, which banners or links they click the most, what product placements are working better on your website, which social media campaigns are bringing you more traffic, etc. That would help you determine whether the announcement emails are worthwhile or perhaps whether the regular emails need to be reformatted. You should see the activity in the Analytics Real-Time > Events panel. Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of.