It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links. Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. This article is part of our HasOffers Basics series.
You will need to make sure you have the standard google tracking script on your page too. For those who read their emails in a browser (like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc.), they would still need to have HTML turned on for it to work, and even then, the email client may restrict whether any scripts embedded in the email can execute. Tracking Search Traffic to the PDF Add a URL parameter to every link pointing to each PDF document on your site.
When a link source is moved, the service passes information to the distributed link tracking server that runs on domain controllers. Click the numbers next to each URL to view the contacts who clicked that link in your campaign. How do you view your shortened links in HootSuite? Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly.
So for instance when you go through the process of shortening a URL, you should click on the Customize button and then add a descriptive tag or title, and Bitly will do the rest. The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people. Google Analytics won't work if there is a space after the URL in the campaign.
Type or paste the full URL of the link that you want to add to your Facebook wall into the input field. Some link shorteners allow custom domains, and some don’t. Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. Windows also includes the same heuristic link tracking with some added improvements for searching name spaces to yield results in some common scenarios. Clicks: The total number of times this link has been clicked. Add Campaign name and any other parameter (optional): Add the name of the campaign to differentiate between the different creatives you are running with that specific owned media source. These parameters are also stored by HasOffers and can be passed in affiliate conversion links via HasOffers macros. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. A feature that a lot of bloggers would die to get their hands on. How Our Link Tracking Works With LinkTrackr, creating tracking links is easy. A few well-known websites have set up their own URL shortening services for their own use – for example, Twitter with t.co, and Google with goo.gl. Change http to https and then load the resulting URL. It is stored in your My Sailthru Settings under Setup > Domains. How to track Link Clicks with Google Analytics To track link clicks in Google Analytics you’ll need to set up custom events.