We will show you how you can enable automatic tracking of all outbound links in Google Analytics with WordPress. It will track the links, but you will still need to use the 'Link Tracker' utility provided by smallseotools.com to examine the links and verify them. The website is just as basic it was when it launched, but it does the deed.
You don’t have to be a major corporation to set up a custom short name domain to create custom short links. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service. Some will show up as a referral from a webmail address, like mail.yahoo.com. The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.There are loads of extensions and bookmarklets that create shortened links from long URLs, but the bit.ly and j.mp services don't need them. Publish one custom branded short link on my business card, then keep the destination URL updated so that people are always taken to my latest blog post when they visit.
For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". If that header is missing or wrong, you will get an error message.
Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. From Google Event Tracking Guide Event Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system. Tag Name: SearchSignals.com » Link Click Listener Tag Type: Link Click Listener Firing Rules SearchSignals.com » All Pages Conditions: {{url hostname}} matches RegEx (ignore case) searchsignals\.com$ The reason I explicitly include my own domain name is I don’t want the events to trigger when I’m developing on my site locally 2. See how that one event isn’t named correctly, so it shows as undefined?
Add password protection to your links to control who has access. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks. More » Is.gd Is.gd provides one of the simplest URL shortening experiences by giving you nothing more than a field to input your long link so you can instantly transform into a shorter one. Go to 'Tracking Pixels (under Analyse) on your Manage page 4. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002. Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default. Find related extensions in the Utilities collection. You can change your URL up to five times within six months.