Tip Don’t clear the cookies from your browser between posting the shortened link and visiting the URL shortening service to view statistics. Set Your Own Expiration Dates Want your links to automatically expire on a specific date? Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters.
The Summary tab shows all clicks on different ow.ly and ht.ly links shared over the course of seven days. Authenticate your Google Analytics profile or enter UA-Code manually. ClickMeter is a super-easy to use web-based professional tool. Link Tracking Limitations The distributed link tracking services are available only on the NTFS file system, and are only available for link sources on NTFS 3. This URL shortener also allows you to set a custom short URL.
Creating a shortened page slug is simple in WordPress. Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan. Tinyarro.ws, and qoiob.com use Unicode characters to achieve the shortest URLs possible, since more condensed URLs are possible with a given number of characters compared to those using a standard Latin alphabet.[citation needed] Services may record inbound statistics, which may be viewed publicly by others.[5] Expiry and time-limited services[edit] Many providers of shortened URLs claim that they will "never expire" (there is always the implied small print: so long as we do not decide to discontinue this service—there is no contract to be breached by a free service, regardless of "promises"—and remain in business). Abuse[edit] URL shortening may be utilized by spammers or for illicit internet activities.
Edit short URLs or QR codes to fix broken pages any time I need it. You should see the activity in the Analytics Real-Time > Events panel.
You need to categorize each link in each email so that the information reported is useful. Tag Name: External Link Tracking » GA Universal Tag Type: Google Universal Analytics Web Property ID: Your Google Universal Analytics UA id Event Type: Event Event Tracking Parameters Category: External Links Action: {{element url}} Label: {{element text}} Value: 1 Non-Interaction Hit: True Firing Rules Links - External Conditions {{event}} equals gtm.linkClick {{element url}} does not match RegEx (ignore case) ^/[^/] {{element url}} does not match RegEx (ignore case) ^[\w:]*//(www\.)?searchsignals\.com You can always rename the category and change the order of the label and action if you want to see it differently in the default Google Analytics view. It is stored in your My Sailthru Settings under Setup > Domains. Once upon a time, the best link building campaigns involved using the same anchor text and quantity was more important than quality. You could create a complex UTM code structure for a link but then shorten it via Bitly and use the link on a piece of direct mail. In this example we have used Twitter. utm_medium parameter is used to describe what kind of medium we have used, in this example we have used a Tweet. utm_campaign parameter to define a campaign name, slogan, promo code, etc. utm_term parameter is used to identify paid search keywords. utm_content You could be using a variety of content types in a campaign, this element allows you to differentiate among them. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks.