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. For example, say you are using UTM codes to track website traffic. If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. Last clicked The most recent date and time someone clicked a tracked link in your campaign.
As the name itself suggests, a URL shortener decreases the length of a long URL making it a lot shorter but still leading the user to the same required destination. When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.
Once you’ve pressed this, you’ll be brought to the URL Forwarding page. Build trust & increase click rate: people tend to click on the links that they trust rather than unknown URLs (ie. bit.ly/buSzh might be a spam link). That fact makes it easy to use only, in online profiles and anywhere else that you want to put a link and track it. A Microsoft Security Brief recommends the creation of short-lived URLs, but for reasons explicitly of security rather than convenience.[6] History[edit] An early reference is US Patent 6957224, which describes ...a system, method and computer program product for providing links to remotely located information in a network of remotely connected computers.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. Buffer: If you currently use Buffer or manage your social media channels this is a great platform.
Works the way you do Yesware’s email tracking software lives in your Gmail, G Suite, Outlook, or O365 inbox, automatically keeping tabs on all your important messages without disrupting your workflow. TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. Additionally, this website is designed to be easy to use with any smartphone or tablet. In this case, you might like to see exactly how these invited friends behave post-acquisition, and how many of them convert after receiving their invitations. On Twitter and some instant-messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Get an alert email when someone clicks your link.