Web PR enthusiast Steve Rubel shared this tip, directly from bit.ly's management, on his personal stream site, and it's a good one. By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 26 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 26, 2011 Thanks. The procedures show results from Adobe DigitalPulse Debugger.
Creating a shortened page slug is simple in WordPress. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way.
For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". To enable outbound link tracking, you need to add a little javascript to your website, and add a little code with each outgoing link that you want to track. From there, you can click Export as CSV to download a list of contacts for each link result. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint.
A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL. A summary of this traffic is found in your Google Analytics reporting under Traffic Sources. This restriction is imposed by optimisation algorithms designed to create reports and rapidly fill the dashboard. Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button. Using it for spamming or illegal purposes is forbidden and any such use will result in the TinyURL being disabled and you may be reported to all ISPs involved and to the proper governmental agencies. They can hide their nefarious links in a shortened URL meaning people either clicked on the links and quickly learned to either never trust a shortened link, or to always use a link extraction site (e.g. WhereDoesThisLinkGo) to see where the shortened link actually went before they clicked.
You can use this service with or without an account. But since these keys are unique, you would need to specify a key that is not yet being used through that site. In this case, each character in the sequence will be 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, a, b, c, ..., y, z. A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL. Note: If you will implement HSTS on your primary domain only, allowing your link domain to remain accessible via HTTP, the following actions are not needed. If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF. It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. Some ad campaigns may be super profitable, but the unprofitable ones eventually cause you to bleed.