Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. You can shorten a link right away, although you’ll need to enter a CAPTCHA code. Practice pasting URL You can practice copying and pasting the URL of this page by following the above steps and then pasting the URL into the text box, below. To double check, replicate the campaign and look at the tracking options you selected.
With ClickMeter you get the same powerful link tracking and link cloaking tool most professional marketers use, but at a fraction of the cost. But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. As an example of how link tracking works, if your site’s domain is example.com, your link domain might be set to link.example.com. 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.
Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button. Easily manage multiple brands and business lines from one Tinycc account. This means your URLs for blog posts will be instead of or something along those lines. Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option. Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way.
Include a link to a survey on some of our packaging labels. 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. Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now. Use this field to describe the type or location of the link. A summary of this traffic is found in your Google Analytics reporting under Traffic Sources.
The permalinks you use in WordPress can be ideally created to be as short as possible. Then, along came some Google algorithm updates and the Penguin put an end to it all. Links can usually be maintained when the link source is moved to another computer, but this form of tracking is less reliable over time. If you’re already familiar with this, feel free to skip right to Campaign Structure Parameters. Launch and use Now that you're all set up, you're ready to use your new URL shortener. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing.