In addition to using bit.ly as a tool integrated into third-party tools you can also use it directly at the bit.ly website. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. This will create an instant redirect from your domain name to affiliate URL. ( --> ) The customer will never see the destination URL in their browser address bar ahead of time. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks).
You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. Type the last part of your new custom URL in the text box.
To change your public profile URL: Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage. The custom tracking link page enables converting a regular custom tracking link to OneLink™.
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. Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right? I like twitter because it stands out uniquely with awesome features.
We wanted to see: A) How many page views the PDFs were getting B) How long people were staying on these PDFs C) How prone they were to bouncing (just in case we needed to redesign them) D) The links we were getting to the PDFs E) Where those links were coming from The solution was pretty simple. Initially Twitter automatically translated URLs longer than twenty-six characters using TinyURL, although it began using bit.ly instead in 2009[10] and later developed its own URL shortening service, t.co. Our CTID can be passed through any affiliate network using SubID tracking. You can also pass the CTID to affiliate networks with pixel tracking or postback tracking if the network supports it. Instead of posting the "pretty" URL, you can shorten it by removing the "www." and using the post ID in the URL (e.g. "?p=1204"). Look up a user's history To fetch a user's history, issue a request like this: GET Authorization: /* auth token here */ In order to demonstrate this, we'll use OACurl instead of curl, to automatically generate the right Authorization header. If your account has multiple link domains, the link domain used to rewrite links is dynamically chosen per-link, based on the destination of the link. On the left side of the offer's page, find the Generate Tracking panel and select the publisher from the Affiliate dropdown menu. When a link is created to a file, the target file is considered the link source, and the creator of the link is the link client. Have you tested the Google Analytics URL parameters? Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. For others, both of those options are necessary, structured and prioritized.