I think a few of these points are worth following up on. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. You'll also get detailed statistics for every link when you sign up for an account, and you're paid via PayPal for payouts as low as $5. More » Bit.do Bit.do is another great alternative that's both simple and powerful. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier. This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress. Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that includes both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "CLICKID" and "UNIQUEVALUE" placeholder values.
Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. Once you have created a campaign-level tracker, that particular tracker cannot be renamed to become an adgroup-level tracker. You’ll want to choose one that uses a 301 redirect for certain. Google Analytics even has a URL Builder tool where you can generate a URL with UTM parameters. Looks like a malfunctioning Holodisk, but the work that went into it, with the dancers, etc, impressive. A total of five parameters are automatically appended when you enable Google Analytics: utm_campaign: will automatically be the name of the campaign as it appears in Sailthru. utm_medium: will automatically be “email”. utm_source: will automatically be “Sailthru”. utm_term: will automatically be the name of the sending list as it appears in Sailthru. utm_content: if you are sending an AB Split or AB Winner or Auto Winner Campaign, this utm parameter will be added to your links.
However, while Analytics shows exit pages it won’t tell you which links users clicked to leave your site. That reference number will be unique to that photo and it’s how Instagram knows which photo you require out of the billions they would have on their systems. You’ll want to choose one that uses a 301 redirect for certain. This total includes clicks on other occurrences of this link on this module. If you already have Google Analytics code inserted in to your WordPress blog, remove that code.
Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co.
If you set up tracking this way, you won't be able to see the Google Analytics statistics in MailChimp. Here’s how to optimize your conversion rate, so you can make sure your promotional efforts pay off in actual ticket sales — not just pageviews. I wanted to give an update on how I used Eventbrite’s back-end tracking tools to see where our attendees were coming from and the tangible impact that social sharing had on having a sold-out event. You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. Campaign Source Campaign source for an email should not be "email".