For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es". There's no point tracking revenue if you don’t know what's generating it.
URL shorteners typically work by redirecting users using a special server response commonly referred to as a "301." This tells the browser that the resource at your short URL has been permenantly moved to the full URL's location. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. Furthermore, this URL shortener also has an option which you can choose to log the statistics of your URLs.
Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. You will need to make sure you have the standard google tracking script on your page too.
It’s a pain, but the outbound link tracking code shown below won’t work without it. (It could be made to work with legacy Analytics, but it’ll eventually stop working so it’s best to upgrade now.) Custom Event Tracking Analytics supports event tracking. Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets.
Adding tracking directly to your site If you have added the Analytics tracking code directly to your site, you can copy and paste the script below into your own pages to set up Event tracking for outbound links. As an example of how link tracking works, if your site’s domain is example.com, your link domain might be set to link.example.com. 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. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 3 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones. Custom Short Links To help combat concerns about following shortened URLs, many major websites have started registering their own custom short links.