Some link shorteners end up on domain block lists because of heavy spammer use. They enable campaigns with limited text space, such as SMS campaigns.
A short link which expires, or can be terminated, has some security advantages. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. The traffic that you drive to a URL will primarily be assigned to that URL, and the data in parameters will be added as long as they don’t conflict.
This total includes clicks on other occurrences of this link on this module. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. They keep URLs that are loaded with UTM tracking tags from looking ugly by hiding the length and characters in the UTM tracking system. This means you couldn't register, for example, domain.uk. Users are warned with the error message below when clicking on potentially harmful URLs. If the URL of a site you manage has been flagged, please see this help page about flagged URLs for more information.You get a whopping 280 tiny Twitter characters to say what you want to say in a tweet.
If you do nothing but add the tracking script to your pages, you’ll be faced with an endless stream of data and reports about user activity on your site. Google Analytics won't track redirects that don't contain embedded Google Analytics code. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website.
The first condition allows this tag to just wait until it sees a link click event, which is the gtm.linkClick event that we were listening for above. As all your Bitly created URLs are saved to your account, you can actually monitor the traffic those URLs are getting. Tinycc URLs use 301 redirects, which means your browser request will be responded to with a 301 = page moved permanently status code and will forward your browser to this "moved to" address (which we are calling the long URL). Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Google moves could bring fast Web apps closer - Thanks. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. The Wizard allows you to link a network to a tracker, which will populate the campaign structure and relevant placeholders with the macros required for each specific network. Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. 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. Is there more than one type of Google Analytics tracking on your links? If you combine MailChimp's Google Analytics tracking with custom UTM tracking, this could skew results in reports. Users are warned with the error message below when clicking on potentially harmful URLs. If the URL of a site you manage has been flagged, please see this help page about flagged URLs for more information.I haven’t heard of any account getting banned for using a URL shortener, so you should be in the clear to use any URL shortener of your choice.