The general idea people have about Google Analytics is that it tells you how many vistors and pageviews you are getting, where the traffic is coming from, and what content is popular on your website. Redirecting focused just on keeping the essential usefulness solid. Send the message and receive the results via return email within seconds.
In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com.[clarification needed] The .ly TLD is controlled by the Libyan government, which has previously removed one domain deemed incompatible with Muslim law.[12] Any shortened URL generated with bitly can also be accessed by replacing that domain with any one of the following: bitly.com j.mp (registered to bitly, and using the top-level domain of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States). Use Custom Short URLs in my books and newsletters to encourage trust and build brand loyalty with fans. That helps you track to see who follows links that originate with you, which means you can track your viral marketing impact - or just give yourself an ego boost. Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content. Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics. It frees up valuable real estate in social messages.
To help you get an idea of what the data collected by autotrack might look like, this demo includes visualizations of the actual data captured by using autotrack on this site. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 11 May 2011 More Statistics for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Thanks. Free users can choose between “go.clickmeter.com“ or “9nl.com“ as a domain name for their tracking link, while pro users can choose their own domain name. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. 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.
Google URL Shortener: This shortener is straight from Google and will be viewed as a Goo(dot)gl. OneLink™ enables using a single link to diagnose and redirect users to different locations based on their devices' type. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. More » Goo.gl Here’s Google’s very own URL shortener, which is a popular choice that’s useful for just getting the job done as quickly as possible.
Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting. This should be for the link domain only; no wildcards. 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. If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 12 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 12, 2011 Thanks. When a link domain is enabled, it is also used to serve your Hosted Pages, which will also become accessible via HTTPS after following these instructions. 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. In order to form the key, a hash function can be made, or a random number generated so that key sequence is not predictable. You can safely preview a short link by adding ~ or = to the end of the URL, for instance: Bookmarklets Shorten and share any page at the click of a bookmark, without installing extensions or apps. 3 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }} SeymourJones in Web Design Let me start by saying, this sounds "crazy". It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page.