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. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers.
You'll also get detailed statistics for every link when you sign up for an account, and you're paid via PayPal for payouts as low as $5. More » Bit.do Bit.do is another great alternative that's both simple and powerful. According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites. Create one tracker for each platform, and create the multi-platform tracker like so: Any clicks from iPhones, iPads and so on will be sent to the iTunes App Store, and those clicks will be counted and shown toward your iOS tracker. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date to make it easy to search for in your Analytics dashboard. Set Different Titles for Emails in a Series All emails in an automation series will have the same title in your Google Analytics account unless you set a separate title for each.
Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. Use this field to describe the type or location of the 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.
It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing.
Outbound links are the links which take visitors from your website to some other site on the web. Include a link to a survey on some of our packaging labels. Check Enable OneLink to convert the custom tracking link to OneLink, while retaining all the added parameters to the link. There are a lot of things that search engines never find because it's not posted on the web in a fashion that they can interpret. To identify users, Google Analytics gives everyone a 'client ID' - a random string of numbers and letters - and puts that in their browser's cookies. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. For example, if someone was on the /about/ page, and clicked on an email address, then Google Analytics will record /about/. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 10 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 10, 2011 Thanks. Before we go any further, you must upgrade to Universal Analytics. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. Restrict our employee's account access to only the campaigns I want assigned to them.