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 the shorthand link is found to be associated with a URL, the URL is fetched, otherwise an error message is returned.[7] The patent was filed in September 2000; while the patent was issued in 2005, US patent applications are made public within 18 months of filing.
You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. You get valuable tracking information including when the link was clicked, where it came from, the search keywords used, the IP address of the visitor and more.
Go to Admin > Edit Posts, hover over the post link, look at the status bar, the number at the end of the URL is the post ID. However, depending on the ad environment, and the pop-up option selected, your user could be left unintentionally stranded. As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. It wasn’t long before link shorteners quickly became more than mere link shorteners.
Conversion Tracking Try a Professional account to track sales, email signups, page visits and more with our easy to use conversion tracking option. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks. Google which is a brilliant search engine decided to examine these numerous links and when its crawler discovered that the links were spam links it blacklisted the site and sent it into oblivion. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year.
Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. Check Enable OneLink to convert the custom tracking link to OneLink, while retaining all the added parameters to the link. Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call. 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. This delay can be made worse if the account is set up close to the weekend because sometimes data aggregation slows and gets pulled in on Monday. That reference number will be unique to that photo and it’s how Instagram knows which photo you require out of the billions they would have on their systems. 4. Ow.ly Ow.ly is another URL shortener that doesn’t require you to see ads. In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc. Finally, Event Tracking employs an object-oriented model that you can use to collect and classify different types of interaction with your web page objects.