When you schedule a link Tweet via Hootsuite, you can shorten the link to an owl.ly link. owl.ly/0a0b0c0 Google: As always, Google has something for you too. The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people. Your domain registar account usually has URL forwarding options for the domain. Also, a custom domain might improve the amount of clicks your link receives. According to RadiumOne, URL shorteners that offer vanity domains can increase sharing up to 25 percent. It’s very simple interface will allow you create custom URLs so that it’s not just a random mix of letters and numbers if you want. bit.ly/0a0b0c0 TinyURL: Another one of the first, if not the first URL shorteners for Twitter.
With that in mind, we need to cover two things: Keeping track of users when they move from your website to Eventbrite (called cross-domain tracking), and Setting up Google Analytics to collect data about ticket purchases on Eventbrite Let's get into it… Prerequisites Before you can get this to work, you're going to need to make sure you have two things in place. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 11 Dec 2012 More 5 digital skills every should have. Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable. If you have used either the UTM tracker or outbound link tracking in the past, then let us know of your experience.
If you are using WordPress, you can take advantage of the default permalink structure to shorten URLs. As you shorten your links, Google will display them below with its long URL version, when it was created, its corresponding shortened goo.gl link and how many clicks it has received.
Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 2 Mar 2010 More Ten big ideas from TED - CNN.com - Thanks. Send the message and receive the results via return email within seconds. The .ly namespace is controlled by Libya, you see, and the use of it is governed by strict rules. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks.
A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL. When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. Boom, ka-bang, you can now see your PDF's Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Avg. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. 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. We need to be careful and ensure tracking never stops user navigation even on failure. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Twitter.com: The truth is that the best URL shortener for Twitter is the one that’s built into Twitter. Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly. Now we have everything in one place and a truly integrated system which makes it simple to reconcile reports and revenue from event.” — Director, Teach First Run The River “We researched all the major ticketing providers but moved to Eventbrite as we were satisfied that this offered the best experience for our customers. Not only is this good for link shortening, but it is also good for SEO. Enabling this setting records and displays the following additional link information: URL: Displays the URL that will be tracked.