This has been risky in the past because errors can result whenever users manually enter links. MailChimp reports provide a few different metrics for measuring click activity on a campaign report. 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.
Use this example as a model for your own links: Check out example.com Analytics Events Was this article helpful? 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). If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard. Nesbitt, Scott (7 February 2010). "Shorter Is Sweeter: A Look at URL Shorteners".WordPress Short URL for Twitter Jan 08, 2010 Tags: TipsWordPress You may have noticed that Twitter no longer automatically shorten URLs in the tweets.
Activate the Google URL Shortener API in the Google API Console. (If the API isn't listed in the API Console, then skip this step.) When your application needs access to user data, it asks Google for a particular scope of access. This service is provided without warranty of any kind.Statistics To view detailed click statistics for any short URL, just add the plus sign + after it, like this: Short link editing You can edit your links in their statistics page.
Unfortunately, the data would be so inconsistent as to be unreliable. Tag each link in an email with a different ad content so that you can see which links get clicked on the most, and how traffic from each link compares once the visitors are on the site.
I don’t know about you, but anytime you want to switch from Bitly for other alternative, you can refer to the following list. But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. You can also get a visual glimpse of your engagement for a different perspective. An easier way to get to this website will be to copy/paste smallseotools.com/link-tracker in your search browser. Even when people have been to a site before, they will often try to guess or remember the site name instead of using a bookmark or history list; so an ideal domain name is short, simple, memorable and easy to spell. This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress. Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists. From there, you can click Export as CSV to download a list of contacts for each link result. This is it. tinyurl.com/0a0b0c0 Buffer: In order to shorten your URLs, you need to schedule your posts through Buffer who will put your posts in a queue and schedule them to go out at the times you preset.