Don’t worry so much about the whole base64 thing though. The SEO issue isn’t an issue, according to Google’s Matt Cutts.
Without that information you won't know which of your online marketing channels are actually working and driving revenue. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard.
You can also get a general overview of both open and click statistics from the Campaigns page in your account. If these names are duplicated it can affect your attribution data's integrity as installs from your owned media are attributed to integrated partners. It creates short URLs and also keeps a track of All clicks and gives superb statistics. If you do nothing but add the tracking script to your pages, you’ll be faced with an endless stream of data and reports about user activity on your site. Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around. The reason for this is because cookies cannot be set cross-domain, and pageviews, interest data and campaign-specific purchase attribution would not function. So set-up URL forwarding (using a 301 redirect) to .
On Bitly, click the “Info Page +” link to view statistics. Easily manage multiple brands and business lines from one Tinycc account.
Creating the External Link Tracker The last step is to send the link click event, along with the anchor text and URL, to Google Universal Analytics. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes.
Whenever you post a link for a piece of content you are pushing out through Buffer it will create a shorter link that you are able to track and manage. AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener.
It will also check if the site is live on the internet. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type-out or distribute.
When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.