If everything is set up correctly in Google Analytics, a record of this visit should appear in your Google Analytics account. But now I have the option to make special mistake-proof short links for print purposes. These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. Using campaign tracking, however, you will be able to analyze your email traffic in great detail. If you are including shortened URLs in a blog or online article, obviously you would like some reassurances that the link will continue to be valid for a long time.
Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing.
Then, along came some Google algorithm updates and the Penguin put an end to it all. If you already have a domain you want to use just point it at our site and add it to your account.
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. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. There are a lot of other link shorteners, many being novelty systems (like a link shortener that doesn’t really shorten but turns your URL into a Dickens quote, or one that makes your link look shady and nefarious, or one that churns out a hipster-phrased link) or ways to earn money for yourself or for charities through ads that appear before the user gets to the destination URL. In choosing a source, think in terms of broad categories so that you can do roll-up reports for each type of email. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes.
Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. If you are trying to make a quick buck on your visitors I suggest this site. In November 2009, the shortened links of the URL shortening service Bitly were accessed 2. These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case). They are also my favorite in the space, because they allow for you to customize your bitlinks to have any ending you choose. If you’re setting up a new Tracking ID and selected “Get Tracking ID”, you’re taken to a page showing the "Tracking ID," which you'll need to copy and paste into Eventbrite. It gives you yet another level of analytics that you can use to base your decisions on. In your WordPress dashboard in Settings > Permalinks you can choose which format you’d like your permalinks to be. Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private. Tip: Many web pages, including Computer Hope, have a Share or E-Mail link that allows you to share it with friends. For example, label the company logo that shows up on each email as "logo", or the main picture in an email as "main picture". These parameters are also stored by HasOffers and can be passed in affiliate conversion links via HasOffers macros. Add TinyURL to your browser's toolbar Click and drag the following link to your links toolbar. Click the numbers next to each URL to view the contacts who clicked that link in your campaign.