You’ll want to choose one that uses a 301 redirect for certain. 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. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. Also, you can choose the redirect type of your link, depending on whether you plan on changing your destination URL in the future.
To ensure proper tracking, use direct links to pages where Google Analytics code is embedded. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Automatically Deactivate Your Links With a Professional account, you can set your links to automatically deactivate after a certain number of clicks. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 10 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 10, 2011 Thanks.
Link Tracking Limitations The distributed link tracking services are available only on the NTFS file system, and are only available for link sources on NTFS 3. They never place a “naked” link on any other website, especially is its an affiliate link. Try CallRail free for 14 days and get better insight into your campaigns. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry.
See where, when, and on what device each message was read. attachments See who reads attachments Know which pages or slides of attached documents were viewed or skipped, how long someone spends on each page, and how often they access your tracked files. dashboard Keep tabs on everything The Inbox Dashboard shows you exactly what you want to know — like which messages have been opened but not replied to — with just one click. On Twitter and some instant-messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. Bitly Tools If you think you will be needing an email shortener on a regular basis, you might as well go ahead and register on Bitly‘s site. They offer some convenient tools to make shortening URLs a faster process.
To enable it, you can upload your own SSL certificate for the link domain using the same workflow that Sailthru provides for enabling Apple’s iOS Universal Links. You should see a new tag pop up telling you that it tracked the email link click event: Once you’ve confirmed the tag works, the next step is to save a new version and publish everything. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. These are all exposed in the
using rel=shortlink. It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck. When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable. Most URL shortening services offer basic analytic data that tracks the total number of clicks, the time of the click and the country or territory location of the person who clicked the link. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API. Go to Admin > Edit Posts, hover over the post link, look at the status bar, the number at the end of the URL is the post ID.