It is stored in your My Sailthru Settings under Setup > Domains. Complete the on-screen fields, and then click Add Domain.
There isn’t just “one” way to do this: what matters is that it’s easy for you and others to understand.In this article: Click tracking allows you to see if contacts have clicked links in your campaign. There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. I have been using this tool myself for the past half year and have to say it’s the most advanced and easiest tool to use for tracking your website actions. Can generate transcribable short links in printed brochures for publicity events. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data.
To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. Hootsuite users will see their links shortened, but non-Hootsuite users can also use the shortener. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks). Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang.
When a user visits your site and is interested in reading the content of a particular page, he or she simply clicks on the link and the page is opened. Initially Twitter automatically translated URLs longer than twenty-six characters using TinyURL, although it began using bit.ly instead in 2009[10] and later developed its own URL shortening service, t.co. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. If you need quick and dirty link shortening, maybe Bitly is then the best for you. This app quickly sees which of your links are more efficient in driving incoming traffic to your site.
Before the plain-text version of your campaign is sent, links will look something like this example. It is highly recommended to enable if you are using Google Analytics on your site. We then redirect the user to the destination URL. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 4 Dec 2012 More Check us out on , too! This method is safe and would definitely save you a lot of stress.