But to be frank, who likes long stressful stuff these days? Some link shorteners end up on domain block lists because of heavy spammer use. 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.
On Bitly, click the “Info Page +” link to view statistics. Crawlers are not allowed behind our login, and do not have a way to get into accounts. Use this example as a model for your own links: Check out example.com Analytics Events Was this article helpful?
Include a link to a survey on some of our packaging labels. Some offer features that go beyond a basic link shortener. As an example, their tracking system could have a macro for ad placement that you use to replace "AFF_SUB", and another macro for traffic source that you use to replace "SOURCE". Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks. Write down this value and the combination title or description it goes with so you can reference it when you view your data in Google Analytics later. Instead of posting the "pretty" URL, you can shorten it by removing the "www." and using the post ID in the URL (e.g. "?p=1204").
All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. 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. Creating a shortened page slug is simple in WordPress. The volume that holds the link source file is moved to another computer within the same domain.
In November 2009, the shortened links of the URL shortening service Bitly were accessed 2. Unfortunately, the data would be so inconsistent as to be unreliable. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? To learn more, read Troubleshooting Click Tracking. You need to categorize each link in each email so that the information reported is useful. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. With a list that sorts each PDF in order of performance. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs.