It’s pretty cool because you don’t have to add it as a browser extension, but as a link to your Bitly account that shows up in the the sidebar. Also, a custom domain might improve the amount of clicks your link receives. According to RadiumOne, URL shorteners that offer vanity domains can increase sharing up to 25 percent. Add TinyURL to your browser's toolbar Click and drag the following link to your links toolbar. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. You can later go back and add additional links to any of your saved bundles.
Our thanks also go out to our friends at GoDaddy and in Montenegro for help with the domain.URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. You may also right-click any highlighted section and choose Paste from the drop-down menu. Scott Hanselman wrote a short but interesting post tracing the amount of redirection that happened on a single shortened link. Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it?
Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks. The regEx is a bit more complex than one would expect but it’s addressing a couple of use cases. Adding all three of these would give you a URL similar to: This would create a segment displayed in your dashboard as “AdNetwork > CAMPAIGN_1 > ANY_NAME > REPLACE_ME.” Go ahead - try it! Google displays a consent screen to the user, asking them to authorize your application to request some of their data.
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. Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent * using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it. */ var trackOutboundLink = function(url) { ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, { 'transport': 'beacon', 'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;} }); } You'll also need to add (or modify) the onclick attribute to your links.
Search Engines and Link Indexing Two methods that search engines use to discover links and pages: 1) Webmasters can inform search engines about new links with a submission form. It's also worth considering leaving the most recognizable part of your name spelled out. 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. Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co. Charts and Graphs Get free real-time graphs so you can clearly visualize your link activity and see where you're getting the most response. He tracked seven 301 redirects before he got to the actual URL destination. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. We sometimes experience products selling out suddenly in the middle of a large campaign. Though people haven’t detailed the reason they are the best for link tracking service, let me give you some pointers which should help you short-list a good link tracking service. It’s one of the earliest link shorteners out there and allows you to customize the actual shortened link (again, if the customization is not yet taken). To turn click tracking on or off in a regular email campaign, follow these steps. The link subdomain does not support https out of the box. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. If search engines have not indexed suspicious sites, you can remove them. This is something you’ll often hear from link shortener detractors. Owned media is often a great source for abundant (and mostly free) traffic, but it's equally important to track and measure it properly, to get more installs and better engagements from your new users.