Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page.
View Click Tracking Reports Click tracking tells you how your contacts interact with your content and whether they want to visit the destination URLs in your campaign. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. You can also determine if the links coming to your PDF are negative links coming from a website you don’t want to be affiliated with. For example, if the user clicks on “sales@wearefine.com”, that’s what Google Analytics will record. And getting me a web page is kind of the most important thing the web does…Every redirect is a one more point of failure, one more domain that can rot, one more server that can go down, one more layer between me and the content. Send the message and receive the results via return email within seconds.
We help Affiliates to monitor, compare and optimize all their online marketing campaigns in one place and decide what is working and what is not. Each section contains a brief description, an example, and a link to more detailed information. Nesbitt, Scott (7 February 2010). "Shorter Is Sweeter: A Look at URL Shorteners".WordPress Short URL for Twitter Jan 08, 2010 Tags: TipsWordPress You may have noticed that Twitter no longer automatically shorten URLs in the tweets.
The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.You get a whopping 280 tiny Twitter characters to say what you want to say in a tweet. When you add Google Analytics tracking to an email campaign, we supply a default title for your campaign that will appear in your Google Analytics account and your tracking URLs.
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". If your organization has multiple people shortening links and posting them, be sure to provide access and training to everyone involved. More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site. STEP 3: Simple Tag Testing After you’ve saved your new tag, go ahead and select Preview, and then Debug: Then, open up your website to a page you’d like to test. You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar. Clicking on it will show you a list of outgoing URL(s) users clicked on your website. The Google Analytics account has to be set up and configured before the tracked campaign is sent. The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date to make it easy to search for in your Analytics dashboard. Add Tracking to Your Automated Email Campaign To add Google Analytics tracking to an automated email campaign in MailChimp, follow these steps. Don’t fall for one of those “build your Twitter follower count fast” programs. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. In order to address the fear of linkrot happening when a link shortening service shuts down, the Internet Archive started the 301 Works project in an attempt to preserve the link shortening databases should participating services shut down.