You can shorten a link right away, although you’ll need to enter a CAPTCHA code. In your WordPress dashboard in Settings > Permalinks you can choose which format you’d like your permalinks to be. This should not contain information already in the campaign name or medium fields.
On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. A summary of this traffic is found in your Google Analytics reporting under Traffic Sources. As you shorten your links, Google will display them below with its long URL version, when it was created, its corresponding shortened goo.gl link and how many clicks it has received. Maybe, the footer bar and the after post banner is working the best, but your sidebar ad is not.
To track only the HTML version of your campaign, and not the plain-text version, you can create a custom tracking code using Google's resources and add it to the HTML of your campaign. I'm sure there are also better ways this can be done, so if you have your own way of doing it please leave me some comments below!Add JavaScript code within the tags of each page where you want to track affiliate links. 0 or later within the same domain, the file can be found by the tracking service, subject to time considerations. Those groups can often be subdivided further to show you exactly which publishers, affiliates, or keywords work best.
Fallback parameters allow you to send users that are using the wrong platform to another location. But as Dave Winer articulated, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a shortener ourselves, and here we are. 🙂 People are already using it. All best affiliate gurus spend a big fortune creating, designing and improving their online marketing system to get an unfair advantage over everyone else.
Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. 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. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. Click tracking in Sailthru is done through your link subdomain. Edit short URLs or QR codes to fix broken pages any time I need it.