White labeling lets me present a positive picture of our company as clients see our agency logo when they login to create URLs. This method is safe and would definitely save you a lot of stress. More » Goo.gl Here’s Google’s very own URL shortener, which is a popular choice that’s useful for just getting the job done as quickly as possible.
Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter. It’s very simple interface will allow you create custom URLs so that it’s not just a random mix of letters and numbers if you want. bit.ly/0a0b0c0 TinyURL: Another one of the first, if not the first URL shorteners for Twitter. More over, all these statistics & reports come with no cost.
You could create a complex UTM code structure for a link but then shorten it via Bitly and use the link on a piece of direct mail. We wanted to see: A) How many page views the PDFs were getting B) How long people were staying on these PDFs C) How prone they were to bouncing (just in case we needed to redesign them) D) The links we were getting to the PDFs E) Where those links were coming from The solution was pretty simple. Note: Not all website UTM parameters work properly with Google Analytics.
Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! The link tracking services are exposed by the IShellLink and IOleLink interfaces.
TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. For example, a standard tracking link like: shortens to something like: You can also append unencrypted parameters to a shortened URL. Finally, Event Tracking employs an object-oriented model that you can use to collect and classify different types of interaction with your web page objects. 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. Unfortunately, the data would be so inconsistent as to be unreliable. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[26] Blocking and banning[edit] Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles. We've seen with new accounts it can take a few days to actually have data start populating in the MailChimp account. If you, however, add data such as user IDs, or highly subdefined publisher IDs, it may happen. It might be worth checking your computer for viruses with an antivirus utility such as CureIt from «Dr. How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? Other times it may be followed by a short readable name.