Add Tracking to Your A/B Testing Campaign To add Google Analytics tracking to your A/B Testing Campaign in MailChimp, follow these steps. If the link you are interested in is long (more than 60 characters), copy and paste the URL into a web page that creates a short link. The process must be fast, not handle clicks which have been deactivated by other processes and ensure links work even if the Analytics event fails. URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability.
The nextPageToken will be present on all but the last page. items contains the list of entries for the first "page" of the user's history, in order of descending creation time. 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. This example assumes that you are using the analytics.js tracking code. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. See the company's blog to learn more about the changes that are taking place. More » TinyURL.com TinyURL used to be one of the top shortening choice in the past, and people still use it a lot today, however it does include a couple more characters compared to others like Bit.ly and Goo.gl. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks.
Backlinks are followed by Google's robot to check if it’s a valid link. 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.
I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. Here's an example of a URL that can be set as the custom click macro for an offer: {redirect} On click, the {redirect} macro in the above URL is replaced with the HasOffers tracking link for the offer: Custom Transaction IDs Before using the parameter for custom transaction ID, contact your account manager or our support team to enable the feature for your network. That reference number will be unique to that photo and it’s how Instagram knows which photo you require out of the billions they would have on their systems. A total of five parameters are automatically appended when you enable Google Analytics: utm_campaign: will automatically be the name of the campaign as it appears in Sailthru. utm_medium: will automatically be “email”. utm_source: will automatically be “Sailthru”. utm_term: will automatically be the name of the sending list as it appears in Sailthru. utm_content: if you are sending an AB Split or AB Winner or Auto Winner Campaign, this utm parameter will be added to your links. Links that users create through the URL Shortener can also open directly in your mobile applications that can handle those links. Also, you can choose the redirect type of your link, depending on whether you plan on changing your destination URL in the future.
OneLink™ Custom tracking links are app specific, which always direct clicking users to the page of the app that is specified on the tracking link. White labeling lets me present a positive picture of our company as clients see our agency logo when they login to create URLs. Shorten Link Action Shortened links are very useful because: 1. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 21 May 2011 More Version 0. However, if it's a direct link to a resource like a document or PDF or JPG, to track this link when using Google Analytics you may need some custom tracking methods setup on your server to track that particular link to your resource. Tracking Links to your PDF Using Open Site Explorer you can take the full URL of your PDF and drop it directly into the search bar and click search. Click the Shorten button, and voila your long URL is shortened and ready for you to use. You can always view clicks over a period of 24 hours, a month, and a custom date range.