The key to protecting your SEO, then, is to choose a link shortening service that uses a 301 redirect. This count includes multiple clicks from individual recipients. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 19 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 19, 2011 Thanks. The group link will then open the web pages in order with a control bar at the top of the browser. If you're comfortable with Web hosting and setting up simple PHP and mySQL applications, there are several free scripts you can use to set up a URL shortener on your own server, giving you much more control.
Have you given the reports enough time to populate? But now I have the option to make special mistake-proof short links for print purposes. Here are 5 URL Shorteners that I actively use: Bitly: This website allows you to create an unlimited amount of bitlinks, which come with analytics and tracking. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling.
Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. By clicking on the toolbar button, a TinyURL will be created for the page you are currently at.
You can also get a general overview of both open and click statistics from the Campaigns page in your account. My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly. Using placeholders, media partners can use a single click URL and automatically assign the correct values to your parameters. Every single email address links contains mailto: so this firing rule ensures that this tag only fires on clicks where links are “mailto” type email addresses. In fact, just from YouTube’s 11 characters, it can encode the numbers from one to 73,786,976,294,838,206,464 in base64. AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener.
This data is useful in aggregate to determine the response to your emails, including attributing purchases to sends, and also at the individual level to determine a user’s engagement and interaction with Lifecycle Optimizer rules and Audience Builder filters. We've worked with lots of different ticketing systems over the years, and usually find that third-party hosted systems can be restrictive when it comes to analytics. With a premium account you can: Create links that never expire. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. Here is what the firing rules look like for this tag:Event Equals gtm.linkClick: You will want to use this rule for ANY and ALL link click events. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them. MailChimp reports provide a few different metrics for measuring click activity on a campaign report. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. After that, it’s up to you to decide what you need. They are also my favorite in the space, because they allow for you to customize your bitlinks to have any ending you choose. You can always view clicks over a period of 24 hours, a month, and a custom date range.