Another privacy problem is that many services' shortened URL format is small enough that it is vulnerable to brute-force search. Some link shorteners end up on domain block lists because of heavy spammer use.
If you are using WordPress, you can take advantage of the default permalink structure to shorten URLs. Outbound links are the links which take visitors from your website to some other site on the web. 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.
For example, New York Times uses the shortened address “nyti.ms”. Here's an example of a URL that can be set as the custom click macro for an offer: {redirect} On click, the {redirect} macro in the above URL is replaced with the HasOffers tracking link for the offer: Custom Transaction IDs Before using the parameter for custom transaction ID, contact your account manager or our support team to enable the feature for your network. This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns. How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing?
Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! You can only see how many clicked on the specific short URL to get there.
Without tracking those metrics, how do you know which method is working the best? When you check the box to enable tracking, we'll show the campaign title as it will appear in your Google Analytics account after the campaign is sent. URL shorteners typically work by redirecting users using a special server response commonly referred to as a "301." This tells the browser that the resource at your short URL has been permenantly moved to the full URL's location. It would be advisable first to list all the links to your site and if you find any suspicious links, use this utility to examine it. If you have several apps set up in Adjust, each for a different platform, then you can create two trackers in your dashboard and combine them.