Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option. Keyword This field should never be used in an email campaign.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks. HootSuite also allows you to view a dashboard that tracks clicks for each shortened link shared in the management system.
Use either of the following formats:
Link Tracking Limitations The distributed link tracking services are available only on the NTFS file system, and are only available for link sources on NTFS 3. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. With a Professional account, you can use any of our alternative domain names for your tracking links. You can test that the certificate files were successfully processed by using one of your Hosted Pages. Google Analytics doesn’t “listen” for link click events by default, so that’s why we have to go the extra work of creating a link click listener tag. 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.
So if you have a page at , you can use the URL and going to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website. This sounds like a lot of work if you want to track all your outgoing links.
Before you move on, let me let you know that twitter blocks a lot of link shortening services and has since flag them negatively. There are a lot of other link shorteners, many being novelty systems (like a link shortener that doesn’t really shorten but turns your URL into a Dickens quote, or one that makes your link look shady and nefarious, or one that churns out a hipster-phrased link) or ways to earn money for yourself or for charities through ads that appear before the user gets to the destination URL. WordPress provides several permalink structure options. These “pretty” permalink options have gotten some flak in the past for being a drag on your WordPress installation, but newer versions (version 3. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Then when the page loads, it can load the Javascript and track the information in Google Analytics as expected.
They do this by showing your visitor an add before they are taken to another webpage. WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com. Click Macro Redirect You can specify a custom click macro by first enabling the offer tracking setting, and then passing in a URL using the following parameter: redirect For this parameter, you can include either the {redirect} or {eredirect} macro to track your clicks in another tracking system. To request a subset of the above information, set the projection parameter to ANALYTICS_CLICKS or ANALYTICS_TOP_STRINGS. This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. DyingLinks gives you control over how long you want your shortened link to be available, along with some other control and privacy features. On the Setup step, provide a title for the email in the Google Analytics title for email field. It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck.