Services that don’t do this can end up being blacklisted on major websites which won’t allow links from such services to be displayed. For example: Services Brochure In the above URL we’ve added the parameter “?pdf=Services-Brochure” to the end of the PDF URL link. If you would like to read more from me, follow me Quora Vijay Gaur Disclosure : I co-own BrandNshout .com,a Digital marketing and Branding company. Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button. By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do. Set your own link expiration dates (great for limited time offers).
STEP 3: Simple Tag Testing After you’ve saved your new tag, go ahead and select Preview, and then Debug: Then, open up your website to a page you’d like to test. You can also use it to determine how to format your emails and what types of information to include. You can change your URL up to five times within six months. The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service. Just get everything in a bit. Now, it’s trending to see people add and sharing links on Twitter as much as possible.
The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. It allows for custom domains so you can brand your shortened link. Other link tracker software use only cookies, which severely limits what you can track and how you track. On the Setup step, provide a title for the email in the Google Analytics title for email field.
The macro below will allow you to grab just the hostname from the outbound URL. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 2 Mar 2010 More Ten big ideas from TED - CNN.com - Thanks.
Check back later to see the statistics on how your link did. Custom public profile URLs are available on a first come, first served basis. Clickmeter can also be used as a URL-shortening tool with advanced click-tracking. Tracking Opened Emails Companies running email campaigns often want to be able to track how many times their emails were opened. The way out is just the answer to the title of this post. However, if the ad_id parameter is omitted entirely from the tracking link, then HasOffers generates a typical transaction ID for the click session. It allows for custom domains so you can brand your shortened link. The deep_link parameter allow you to specify a deep link URL. Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly. The secret to high click-through rates involves some of the principles that apply to search engine optimization: Write a descriptive and catchy headline that’s relevant to most of your followers and have a network of people who are truly interested in hearing from you. Restrict our employee's account access to only the campaigns I want assigned to them. Tinycc URLs use 301 redirects, which means your browser request will be responded to with a 301 = page moved permanently status code and will forward your browser to this "moved to" address (which we are calling the long URL). From Google Event Tracking Guide Event Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks.