If you track link clicks with virtual pageviews, then your content reports will show more pages on your site than there actually are. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there. Another consideration is that some countries also restrict what content can be used their TLDs, so if you intend in shortening content that might be in violation of these laws, you'll need to find another TLD. Users can create these short links through the web interface at goo.gl, or they can programatically create them through the URL Shortener API.
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. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. You should use the one that’s right for your use case, but below is what I typically use on this site. Services that don’t do this can end up being blacklisted on major websites which won’t allow links from such services to be displayed.
Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. Bonus: Using your custom URL shortener with WordPress If you want to use your custom URL shortener with your WordPress website without having to manually log in to your URL shortener every time, you can use the free WP to Twitter plugin.
This article is part of our HasOffers Basics series. Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name.
Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. The best analytics URL Shorteners and Analytics: Which Ones Deliver Results? The macro below will allow you to grab just the hostname from the outbound URL. I can even include retargeting (remarketing) in the same link. 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. Click the numbers next to each URL to view the contacts who clicked that link in your campaign. 6. V.gd V.gd is presented by the same company as Is.gd. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL.