You can shorten a link right away, although you’ll need to enter a CAPTCHA code. If a user renames the directory, it breaks the links to the file, and all files and subdirectories in the directory tree. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Clickmeter can also be used as a URL-shortening tool with advanced click-tracking. 3 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }} SeymourJones in Web Design Let me start by saying, this sounds "crazy".
A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. Before we go any further, you must upgrade to Universal Analytics. This app quickly sees which of your links are more efficient in driving incoming traffic to your site. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics?
For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create. To track only the HTML version of your campaign, and not the plain-text version, you can create a custom tracking code using Google's resources and add it to the HTML of your campaign. This tool is especially useful if you want to detect click-fraud, see real-time click stats, and measure social media traffic. It frees up valuable real estate in social messages.
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This ensures there’s enough time to track the click. 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. But I find this to be in the common order of usage for my own needs. This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page. Go to the homepage of the URL shortening service that you used in the first step. Additionally, pageview calculations are unaffected by user activity tracked using the Event Tracking method. So set-up URL forwarding (using a 301 redirect) to . You need to categorize each link in each email so that the information reported is useful. Once you've found a domain you like, you'll need to register it.