The Google URL Shortener (Goo.gl), the Bitly URL shortening service and the Tiny URL service all offer basic click stats. The only way to track clicks from your Facebook wall links is to use a URL shortening service for each external link that you post to your wall. If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. It allows for custom domains so you can brand your shortened link. These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case).
It frees up valuable real estate in social messages. I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions. A link shortening service is a middleman, serving up a link that sits between your user and the end result. In the sidebar click on Content » Events » Top Events. You'll also get detailed statistics for every link when you sign up for an account, and you're paid via PayPal for payouts as low as $5. More » Bit.do Bit.do is another great alternative that's both simple and powerful.
URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways. 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. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration.
In this example, we’re creating tag that tracks any click on an email address. You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam.
With TinyURL, you can actually customize the end letters and numbers as an option. Some ad campaigns may be super profitable, but the unprofitable ones eventually cause you to bleed. It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones. When you schedule a link Tweet via Hootsuite, you can shorten the link to an owl.ly link. owl.ly/0a0b0c0 Google: As always, Google has something for you too. Additionally, this website is designed to be easy to use with any smartphone or tablet. While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business. Tag each link in an email with a different ad content so that you can see which links get clicked on the most, and how traffic from each link compares once the visitors are on the site. Custom Variables If using the affiliate sub IDs and source values are insufficient for passing through values on click to the landing page, you can set up custom variables to use in the offer URL and tracking link. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. In those cases, you can add the following parameters to your affiliate tracking link for your publisher to provide more data: Source & Affiliate Sub IDs Some of the most commonly used parameters are the traffic source and affiliate sub ID parameters: source aff_sub aff_sub2 aff_sub3 aff_sub4 aff_sub5 These parameters are used to store non-unique session information from the affiliate’s tracking system that they want passed back on conversion. If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. External filters are useful for tracking only some of the external links on your pages. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first.