Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 18 May 2011 More Revision 357: Removed: piurl.com, tr.im, kl.am; Added: min.ms, mrte.ch, v.gd; Thanks. Tag Type: Select “Link Click Listener” as the tag type. For example, you may not have more than 10,000 different values of creative for a particular tracker. A collaborative and customizable editorial calendar.
Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? 1 billion times.[1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address. This sounds like a lot of work if you want to track all your outgoing links.
A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. I can look at these results and know that 283 tickets sold from an invitation I sent out via MailChimp, 12 tickets sold just from posting the event on Yelp, and 24 tickets sold from our blog post about the event.
Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content. On 14 August 2009 WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.[11] In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2.
When a visitor clicks on your tracking link, LinkTrackr places a cookie on the user’s computer, as well as generate a unique Click Tracking ID or CTID. Macro Name: element url hostname Macro Type: Custom Javascript Custom Javascript: Caveats If you have a Google Analytics Premium account, note that this will increase the # of events for you site. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. Let head straight to the context. How To Shorten Links For Twitter To shorten links for Twitter, follow the guide below. Here’s Tom Scott to explain why YouTube will probably never run out of IDs. Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. These are all exposed in the
using rel=shortlink. He tracked seven 301 redirects before he got to the actual URL destination. By tracking those links, you can find which one is working the best. Twitter.com: The truth is that the best URL shortener for Twitter is the one that’s built into Twitter. While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business.