The regEx is a bit more complex than one would expect but it’s addressing a couple of use cases. To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account. For more information on how to set up Google Analytics tracking manually, take a look at Google's help pages for URL building and tagging your links. Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection. Therefore it's important to keep a tack of the links to your website.
With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web. Customizable links Custom keywords, titles, limits on clicks and availability, you name it: make your short links as you like and change their settings at any time. In this case, each character in the sequence will be 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, a, b, c, ..., y, z.
Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry.
There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. For example: - campaign-level tracker {publisher_id} - campaign-level tracker with creative, but not adgroup data In this case, your data will be assigned to the campaign and tracker with an unknown adgroup. It provides statistics on clicks and shares, creates QR Codes automatically, enables Image Recognition (just upload images to link to your URL), it supports iBeacons, and you can specify mobile deep links, etc. They aren't required for testing, only being logged into your HasOffers account is required to treat the click as a test link.
Link shortening adds another of redirection to an “already creaky system“, according to Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious. Publish one custom branded short link on my business card, then keep the destination URL updated so that people are always taken to my latest blog post when they visit. It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links. There’s no default macro that allows you to get the anchor text of the link, so we’ll create a custom Javascript macro to easily do this. Other Helpful Macros If you have sites that you frequently link out to or have partnerships with, you might want to roll up the click events by domain name. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. See how your visitors are really using your website.