Effectively the data passed is the same as before, however the call is different. Your campaign report will show which contacts clicked your links, and how many times each link was clicked. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. In order to get your domain short enough to be effective as a URL shortener, you may want to consider these tips: Removing vowels: This is an effective way to shortener your organization's name and still making it easy to understand. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL. This is a great solution if your landing page is an actual URL your contacts will be visiting.
We’ll use the GA Event tracking feature to capture all the information. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang.
This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page. At this time, we are unable to reply to any responses, but we'll use this information to keep the site up-to-date.Facebook doesn’t offer an analytics feature that allows you to track clicks on links added to the Facebook wall.
Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. This means you couldn't register, for example, domain.uk.
Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL. At that time, Google will completely disable the URL shortener and all associated data will be lost. Backlinks: These are those links by which a visitor to your website can click and go to another website. You can also right-click any highlighted section and choose Copy from the drop-down menu. When you or Sailthru includes a link in your email to example.com/item/123, your email recipients will instead receive a link URL beginning with link.example.com and ending in a tracking code. Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles. Browse our list for inspiration: You'll likely get some great ideas just look at what others have done! We recommend choosing only one type of Google Analytics tracking. When it comes to online advertising and marketing, link tracking is king. Our agency activities and custom domain portfolio remains private and secure. 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. If your account has multiple link domains, the link domain used to rewrite links is dynamically chosen per-link, based on the destination of the link.