You don’t have to be a major corporation to set up a custom short name domain to create custom short links. These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. That is, month will contain click statistics for the past month, and so on.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. To enable outbound link tracking, you need to add a little javascript to your website, and add a little code with each outgoing link that you want to track. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 5 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 5, 2011 Thanks.
I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them. You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet. Once you've done so, you'll be able to use the payout parameter: Warning: This setting can be prone to abuse and should only be used for internal campaigns. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”.
Since the link only exists here, and you're visiting this site right now, I doubt the click rate is that high. If you find someone who says he or she loves social media but doesn’t have a twitter account, then that person just likes social media. To track only the HTML version of your campaign, and not the plain-text version, you can create a custom tracking code using Google's resources and add it to the HTML of your campaign.
Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. The feedback you provide will help us show you more relevant content in the future. With that said, if you do need to track your URLs, or you want alternative ways to post there are plenty of ways to do it: Bit.ly: Probably the most popular URL shortener for Twitter because it was one of the first to let you track your tiny URLs. This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns. An example Turn this URL: X0DER&pf_rd_s=center-10&pf_rd_r=11EYKTN682A79T370AM3&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1270985982&pf_rd_i=B002Y27P3M into this TinyURL: Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. You should use the one that’s right for your use case, but below is what I typically use on this site.