It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. One of the more common problems is skewing content report data. Static URLs only contain dots, slashes, dashes or underscores. eg: and are considered clean or user-friendly URLs because they are more human readable and descriptive than dynamic URLs. The Google URL Shortener (Goo.gl), the Bitly URL shortening service and the Tiny URL service all offer basic click stats. Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words.
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. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered. Expand a short URL You can call this method to expand any goo.gl short URL. If, for some reason, you're using a custom HTML tag in Google Tag Manager, then hopefully you'll see 'analytics.js' in the code.
Google has possibly started this process for you but the tracking code must be updated on your website pages. If that header is missing or wrong, you will get an error message. Tracking ID You can either manually type your unique Google Analytics ID into this field (ex: UA-########-1) or use a convenient macro that plugs this in for you. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. The link subdomain does not support https out of the box.
All three of these descriptive items will show up in your GA reporting interface, telling you stuff about the link users clicked on. Short.cm also provides an API for developers and Google Chrome extension for better experience. In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo! Link Masking Potential buyers sometimes avoid clicking if they can see that the link involves marketing efforts or affiliate commisions. For consistency, use your URL shortener whenever possible, rather than mixing your own custom domain with other generic ones. When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface.
Use this field to describe the type or location of the link. As you can see, setting up your short URL to forward to your LinkedIn profile is easy to do and makes it easier to connect with people professionally. However, we don’t want to exclude any href that starts with 2 slashes because those are usually fully qualified absolute URLs that are trying to be protocol relative (typically sites that have both HTTP and HTTPS experiences). It does not allow for a custom domain at this time. If you're comfortable with Web hosting and setting up simple PHP and mySQL applications, there are several free scripts you can use to set up a URL shortener on your own server, giving you much more control. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Google's URL builder lets you manually add custom analytics parameters to a website URL. You should use the one that’s right for your use case, but below is what I typically use on this site.