You can always view clicks over a period of 24 hours, a month, and a custom date range. Just a Few of the Available Sites I won’t claim to be familiar with all the possible URL shortening sites you could use. Tag Name: You can name a tag anything you like: “Link Click Listener” seems like a pretty obvious place to start. This URL shortener also allows you to set a custom short URL but there is no feature to track it. Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs).
You’ll want to choose one that uses a 301 redirect for certain. It lives outside their known universe of pages and links.
Maybe, the footer bar and the after post banner is working the best, but your sidebar ad is not. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. Check out the following URL shortening providers that you can get started with using right away. (P. You can also copy the link and paste it into a new window.
I'm sure there are also better ways this can be done, so if you have your own way of doing it please leave me some comments below!Add JavaScript code within the tags of each page where you want to track affiliate links. We can detect whether a link will open a page on a domain which is different to ours. URL shorteners typically work by redirecting users using a special server response commonly referred to as a "301." This tells the browser that the resource at your short URL has been permenantly moved to the full URL's location. Check out our post on social commerce for more specifics on the hard value of social media shares—it’s really important to know the impact these things can have on an organizer’s bottom line! Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 5 Dec 2012 More Have you voted on changes? According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites.
So we can say That Bitly is a superior alternative. If you click the shortened link on bit.ly, you get access to detailed traffic information related to number of clicks, referring Web sites, and geographic locations of the users who clicked. Personalise the Google URL … In this short article I’ll show you one way to personalise the Google URL Shortening service known as goo.gl so you can use your own short URL domain. There are a few ways though: Hard code event tracking script Google Tag Manager Plugins (Gravitate Event Tracking Plugin) Event tracking simply applies a hot element on the page and whenever a user clicks on that element, it sends a singal to Google Analytics. However, standard analytics tools only do a great job in describing activities within the website without dealing too much with your links outside your website. This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns. They just want it to be short, make the bezels small or remove it completely. Lists of links It's easy to save and share lists of interesting links, with the list of links feature. Instead, they create a “tracking link” that will act as a redirect to the actual landing page or website URL. Creative Files When creative files have been added to an offer, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional item labeled Creative. When you select a creative file from the dropdown menu, your tracking link is appended with the following parameter: file_id This parameter also appears in the standalone tracking link to track the performance of the creative in the stats reports: Deep Links If you have the custom deep link feature enabled for an offer, you can set a custom redirect URL to use instead of using one of the existing landing page URLs set in the offer already. With a free account, your links are good for 7 days or 100 clicks. On the Links tab, Click Performance displays your tracked URLs and the number of total and unique clicks for each. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this.