For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. You are also able to use the same tools such as bookmarklets and third-party apps using their API with your custom domain name. 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. Real time link editing means a quick edit is all it takes to instantly shift customers to a new landing page.
TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. Notes: Your custom URL can have 5-30 letters or numbers. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 10 Dec 2012 More Starting in February, 's URL shortener will add two more characters. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 12 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 12, 2011 Thanks. By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do. Example for event tracking using the newer API:
How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? This sounds like a lot of work if you want to track all your outgoing links. If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. Over a quintillion, which would mean no user would have to worry about hitting that limit for over 2700 years at the same rate of one photo every minute. There is no way to stop affiliates from adding their own custom payout on click using this parameter.
In this example we have used Twitter. utm_medium parameter is used to describe what kind of medium we have used, in this example we have used a Tweet. utm_campaign parameter to define a campaign name, slogan, promo code, etc. utm_term parameter is used to identify paid search keywords. utm_content You could be using a variety of content types in a campaign, this element allows you to differentiate among them. If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values. However, if it's a direct link to a resource like a document or PDF or JPG, to track this link when using Google Analytics you may need some custom tracking methods setup on your server to track that particular link to your resource. In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc.
Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. After integrating, any short link which redirects to a web link that you have provided to Google through App Indexing will open automatically in your native app for your users. This has been risky in the past because errors can result whenever users manually enter links. Although the earnings are small, it can certainly add up if you can attract a lot of clicks. Tip: The Google APIs client libraries can handle some of the authorization process for you. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. Nowadays, the best URL shorteners accompany a full suite of analytic apparatuses with the goal that you cannot just divert clients by means of a more huge location; additionally track where your movement is originating from and what they're doing once they arrive. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity.