Click alert emails contain vital tracking information and can help you follow up on hot leads, gauge your marketing campaigns, or prompt you to check your affiliate statistics. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. They are also my favorite in the space, because they allow for you to customize your bitlinks to have any ending you choose. Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. If you click the shortened link on bit.ly, you get access to detailed traffic information related to number of clicks, referring Web sites, and geographic locations of the users who clicked.
Links to files on removable media are not maintained. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. 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. Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. The SEO issue isn’t an issue, according to Google’s Matt Cutts.
Click the “Shorten” or “Tiny!” button to shrink the size of the URL. The volume that holds the link source file is moved to another computer within the same domain. 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. Choosing A Link Shortener There are no shortage of link shorteners out there. Many web developers pass descriptive attributes in the URL to represent data hierarchies, command structures, transaction paths or session information. Here's an example of a tracking link using custom variables for the email and phone parameters: The following HasOffers parameters can be used in your affiliate tracking links: Mobile Tracking Parameters When you want to support mobile device attribution, you can use our mobile tracking parameters in your affiliate tracking links: Thank you for your feedback!
Yet, without a tracker, you’re unable to identify users that have visited your webpage organically. There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff. A uniform resource locator (URL) is registered with a server. Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. 1 billion times.[12] Around that time, bit.ly and TinyURL were the most widely used URL-shortening services.[12] One service, tr.im, stopped generating short URLs in 2009, blaming a lack of revenue-generating mechanisms to cover costs and Twitter's default use of the bit.ly shortener, and questioning whether other shortening services could be profitable from URL shortening in the longer term.[13] It resumed for a time,[14] then closed.
For example, "4" can be used for the "for" sound in a name. This code looked something like the mumbo jumbo in the bolded text below (something about recording the outbound link, yada yada): facebook Of course, that was a huge pain for web developers everywhere, so Google created Google Tag Manager. If you go to that website, there is an edit box near the top of the page where you can paste in a longer URL for a web page, such as , and then click on the Shorten button. The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. Shorten URL (e.g. bit.ly/buSzh) is meaningless because readers don’t know where the link is directing to. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. You will need to make sure you have the standard google tracking script on your page too. An Alternative To Link Shorteners Perhaps you’d like to avoid using a link shortening service. Services such as Bitly declare that their links are permanent; they will never be modified or deleted. They aren't required for testing, only being logged into your HasOffers account is required to treat the click as a test link. More » Goo.gl Here’s Google’s very own URL shortener, which is a popular choice that’s useful for just getting the job done as quickly as possible.