Interestingly, that same infographic suggests that posting shortened URLs later in the week will give them a “longer lifespan”, clicking many days after it was posted. If you go to that website, there is an edit box near the top of the page where you can paste in a longer URL for a web page, such as , and then click on the Shorten button. Charts and graphs like this come with every single Linktrack account - including the free ones. Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan.
Let’s say the link is www.tech-recipes.com/2017/how-to-shorten-links-on-twitter-easily and it’s then shortened. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. When your campaign arrives in recipients' inboxes, the plain-text click tracking will look something like this example.
See how that one event isn’t named correctly, so it shows as undefined? The solution… We’ll attach a click event handler to the body element. Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. Interestingly, that same infographic suggests that posting shortened URLs later in the week will give them a “longer lifespan”, clicking many days after it was posted.
Find the unsubscribe link in your campaign, right click, and copy the link address. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. On this page enter your Google Analytics tracking ID and click the Save button.
Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. Additionally, if the file is moved outside the domain or within a workgroup, it is found. A few well-known websites have set up their own URL shortening services for their own use – for example, Twitter with t.co, and Google with goo.gl. To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account. The key to protecting your SEO, then, is to choose a link shortening service that uses a 301 redirect. When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface. This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. Once you've integrated with App Indexing and your deep links are enabled with goo.gl, you can integrate the URL Shortener API into your app or website's share flow to allow your users to share links that provide the best possible experience on every platform.URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately.