Once you’ve mapped out your plan, then you can start creating tags. With a free account, your links are good for 7 days or 100 clicks. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 Jun 2011 More Revision 362: * Updated toolbarbutton styles Thanks.
Set your domain Log in to the application () using your GoDaddy login information. Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter. Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics. Example: Nissan uses nssn.co Use initials: This tip works for personal or organization URL shorteners. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future.
If these names are duplicated it can affect your attribution data's integrity as installs from your owned media are attributed to integrated partners. Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web.
Hootsuite users will see their links shortened, but non-Hootsuite users can also use the shortener. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey.
This is because an unknown percentage of your recipients read emails with a program that doesn't execute JavaScript or store cookies. My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. If done properly, you should have in the above box. So, I bring the following best options of Bitly alternatives. The secret to high click-through rates involves some of the principles that apply to search engine optimization: Write a descriptive and catchy headline that’s relevant to most of your followers and have a network of people who are truly interested in hearing from you. When your campaign arrives in recipients' inboxes, the plain-text click tracking will look something like this example. It is a legitimate concern that many existing URL shortening services may not have a sustainable business model in the long term.[12] In late 2009, the Internet Archive started the "301 Works" projects,[25] together with twenty collaborating companies (initially), whose short URLs will be preserved by the project.[12] The URL shortening service ur1.ca provides its entire database as a file download, so if its website stops working, other websites may be able to provide ways to correct broken links to URLs shortened with its service. The values for each entry are the same as specified in the Analytics section. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? Click tracking in Sailthru is done through your link subdomain.