Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Google moves could bring fast Web apps closer | Deep Tech - CNET News - Thanks. I think a few of these points are worth following up on. Also, a custom domain might improve the amount of clicks your link receives. According to RadiumOne, URL shorteners that offer vanity domains can increase sharing up to 25 percent.
Password Protection With a Personal or Professional account, you can password protect your tracking links. It is where a link tracker tool comes in handy and will do the job that would take you forever to do. Paste the link into a text file, so you can view the entire link, and find the value that follows c= at the end of the link address. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. With its own URL shortener, you can ensure that your long links are kept safe and secure for your visitors.
STEP 2: Create Tags for Tracking Individual Links You can create tags to track lots of different link clicks: – Email addresses – PDF and file downloads – Social media profiles – All external links, or – Just the most *important* external links – Important calls to action (ex: “Register Now”) – Etc., etc…. This method can create some clever domains and also have the advantage of using the domain extension itself as part of the word or words you're trying to convey. 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.
Vanity Links You can make custom vanity links with any premium account. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. WordPress provides several permalink structure options. These “pretty” permalink options have gotten some flak in the past for being a drag on your WordPress installation, but newer versions (version 3.
Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 6 Dec 2012 More RT : Our has been extended til Friday! Rename, backup, and restore operations preserve object IDs. In the meantime, here’s the basic breakdown of how a link click event tag works: Tag Name: Give the tag a name that makes sense to you. You should not put information in this field that you have in other fields. We’ll use the GA Event tracking feature to capture all the information. Google displays a consent screen to the user, asking them to authorize your application to request some of their data. Click the name of the report you want to work with. Get app deep links with the URL Shortener The URL Shortener also offers the capability of having short links deep link to content in your mobile apps.