If you click the shortened link on bit.ly, you get access to detailed traffic information related to number of clicks, referring Web sites, and geographic locations of the users who clicked. If your account has multiple link domains, the link domain used to rewrite links is dynamically chosen per-link, based on the destination of the link.
At Track Number Of Times This Link Is Clicked? mark the check box to enable link tracking. - OR - unmark the check box to disable it. But otherwise, the free account is useful enough for comprehensive link tracking. Generate Creative Code If you've added creative assets to the offer, there will be a dropdown menu below the tracking link where you can select the desired creative: When the creative is selected, the generated creative ad tag code for the publisher and offer appears in a new text box. Take a look at your social media feeds and you’ll see that link shortening has really caught on as a practice.
Go to 'Tracking Pixels (under Analyse) on your Manage page 4. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks. Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it? With a premium account you can: Create links that never expire. Use this example as a model for your own links: Check out example.com Analytics Events Was this article helpful? 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.
So if your link is as long as a giraffes neck, coupled with the rest of the tweet, you will definitely find yourself truncating the text and even break the whole thing. Of course, you could also just fetch and inspect the Location header in the response, but using the API has two advantages: It won't update the short URL's click stats, so you can fetch a bunch of long URLs without worrying about messing up analytics. Then, use the tracking link in your ads and promotions. In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc.
Other URL shortening services provide a similar destination display.[32] Security professionals suggest that users check a short URL's destination before accessing it[citation needed], following an instance where shortening service cli.gs was compromised, exposing millions of users to security uncertainties.[33] There are several web applications that can display the destination URL of a shortened URL.[citation needed] Some URL shortening services filter their links through bad-site screening services such as Google Safe Browsing. In general, don't remove vowels at the beginning of words, though. In Tiny, click the “Stats” page button under the URL to access the statistics. An example Turn this URL: X0DER&pf_rd_s=center-10&pf_rd_r=11EYKTN682A79T370AM3&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1270985982&pf_rd_i=B002Y27P3M into this TinyURL: Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? Enter the post/update you want to share in the required field. So if you have a page at , you can use the URL and going to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. Please see Google’s help page on Custom Campaigns for more information. Before you get started, be sure to plan out your events first.