Outbound links are the links which take visitors from your website to some other site on the web. You can use up to one source parameter and five sub ID parameters, each of which appear in your stats and conversion reports. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Then, run: $ oacurl If successful, the response will look like: { "totalItems": 72, "itemsPerPage": 30, "nextPageToken": "2010-09-29T06:59:22.
You can also find out how many clicks your particular bit.ly link got compared to the total clicks on the long link. Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period. Click this number in your report to open a list of subscribers who clicked. Link Tracking Features Shell shortcuts include heuristic link tracking that uses a tree search algorithm to find a match for a moved link source. 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.
I can even include retargeting (remarketing) in the same link. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. Before You Start Here are some things to know before you begin this process. A short link which expires, or can be terminated, has some security advantages. 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.
Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. When a user visits your site and is interested in reading the content of a particular page, he or she simply clicks on the link and the page is opened. I once went bonkers when I couldn’t get a link click tag to work… and it all came down to a lowercase typo. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API.
To add the source parameter, check the Add Source box. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. For example, if you send out weekly newsletters, this might be "newsletter". Google has possibly started this process for you but the tracking code must be updated on your website pages. The examples use curl and OACurl to show you how to get started interacting with the API quickly, right from the command line. Use Custom Short URLs in my books and newsletters to encourage trust and build brand loyalty with fans. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database.