We wanted to see: A) How many page views the PDFs were getting B) How long people were staying on these PDFs C) How prone they were to bouncing (just in case we needed to redesign them) D) The links we were getting to the PDFs E) Where those links were coming from The solution was pretty simple. Technically not part of any protocol, it is simply a convention standing for world wide web. But, Is.gd comes with an option to enable you to create a custom short URL. In addition to easy link shortening, you can use the service with your own domain, customize the characters at the end of your links, get real-time statistics and even see which countries your clicks are coming from. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 3 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thanks.
All links will automatically be rewritten when they are included in your emails, wrapped in a unique tracking URL that uses the Link Domain you have set on your Settings Page. To activate link tracking for a given template or campaign, within its settings, simply ensure that the Link Tracking option is set to Yes. We recommend turning on link tracking; if link tracking is disabled, the attribution described above will not function. Short URLs, for example, will be subject to linkrot if the shortening service stops working; all URLs related to the service will become broken. There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination.
If the shorthand link is found to be associated with a URL, the URL is fetched, otherwise an error message is returned.[7] The patent was filed in September 2000; while the patent was issued in 2005, US patent applications are made public within 18 months of filing. Have you tested the Google Analytics URL parameters? Before the plain-text version of your campaign is sent, links will look something like this example. The disconnection of the server caused us serious problems, and to be honest, the level and nature of the abuse has become quite demoralizing.
However, due to the nature of the technology, email tracking cannot be considered an absolutely accurate indicator that a message was opened or read by the recipient. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing.
After you have an API key, your application can append the query parameter key=yourAPIKey to all request URLs. 2) Search engines automatically find links when they exist on public pages. By clicking on the toolbar button, a TinyURL will be created for the page you are currently at. Why would a fashion magazine's site permit a pet training site to create a link to it? Top-level domains of countries such as Libya (.ly), Samoa (.ws), Mongolia (.mn), Malaysia (.my) and Liechtenstein (.li) have been used as well as many others. The general idea people have about Google Analytics is that it tells you how many vistors and pageviews you are getting, where the traffic is coming from, and what content is popular on your website. Take a look at your social media feeds and you’ll see that link shortening has really caught on as a practice. I hope this article has helped you understand a little more about how URL shortening works. It allows for custom domains so you can brand your shortened link. With TinyURL, you can actually customize the end letters and numbers as an option. Publishers using the publisher interface can also generate tracking links using features similar to those available in this panel. Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message.