Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option. When someone pastes this shorter URL in their browser, they are initially directed to the Bitly site. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service.
The macro below will allow you to grab just the hostname from the outbound URL. Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan.
Our thanks also go out to our friends at GoDaddy and in Montenegro for help with the domain.Welcome to TinyURL!™ Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Under Tracking, click the Google Analytics link tracking box. Here’s some of the click tracking information you’ll see in your overview. 9 This Dictionary Toolbox allows you to search for a word description within seconds.
Real time link editing means a quick edit is all it takes to instantly shift customers to a new landing page. Use A Custom Domain With Link Shorteners With services like Domainr and IWantMyName, you can easily get a custom domain to use with link shorteners. If a user renames the directory, it breaks the links to the file, and all files and subdirectories in the directory tree. Google Analytics doesn’t “listen” for link click events by default, so that’s why we have to go the extra work of creating a link click listener tag.
Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. Bit.ly, which is what we integrate with in CoSchedule, uses a 301 redirect. For PCs or other kinds of devices, these would be redirected to the iOS tracker, as it is the first. Campaign-, adgroup- and creative-level trackers have corresponding Campaign Structure Parameters, e.g. campaign, adgroup and creative. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. At this time, we are unable to reply to any responses, but we'll use this information to keep the site up-to-date.You can make an unlimited number of links with any account - including the free one. Email is the medium of this communication, not the source. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Hanselman was redirected through a convoluted path that used link shortening for analytics and tracking, and found the end result frustrating from a user standpoint.