Scott Hanselman wrote a short but interesting post tracing the amount of redirection that happened on a single shortened link. Using it for spamming or illegal purposes is forbidden and any such use will result in the TinyURL being disabled and you may be reported to all ISPs involved and to the proper governmental agencies. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Here, we'll go over how you can customize an affiliate tracking link to your needs using HasOffers parameters. We introduced parameters, values, macros, and how they fit into your workflow in our article on Parameters & Macros in HasOffers.
Furthermore, if we talk amateurishly then Google is better because it's usable effectively. For instance, if you have a link pointing to personal information and only you or a family member uses it, then there is no method for a web crawler to find it. This is a string of encrypted numbers and alphabets.
You can use click tracking tools, or Google analytics track clicks to external sites to check clicks coming from external links to your website and vice versa. If you use a third-party for some of your emails, you might use that third-party's name.
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It's also worth considering leaving the most recognizable part of your name spelled out. Creating tracking URLs is a simple process that can all be done from your Adjust Dashboard. Maybe, the footer bar and the after post banner is working the best, but your sidebar ad is not. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. Example: link UPDATE The above is for the older version of the API - ga.js. URLs that are shortened with the bitly service use the bit.ly domain or any other generic domain that the service offers.[citation needed]Information about any short bitly URL is available at (that is, the URL with a plus sign appended), for example .[8] This allows users to see and check the long URL before visiting it. The great thing is now you can promote your own domain in the tweets. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 3 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thanks. 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. Example Link Tracking Configuration Perform the following procedures to explore the link tracking behavior of the Adobe Analytics integration. Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. These parameters are also stored by HasOffers and can be passed in affiliate conversion links via HasOffers macros.