WordPress provides several permalink structure options. These “pretty” permalink options have gotten some flak in the past for being a drag on your WordPress installation, but newer versions (version 3. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them.
I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there.
If a link is never used on the internet or shared publicly then it doesn't exist in a cyber sense. Once implemented, visit your site and click a few outbound links. In the sidebar click on Content » Events » Top Events. Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover. Change http to https and then load the resulting URL.
Once you are sure that your WordPress site does not have Google Analytics code, go to Settings » Google Analytics. More » Ow.ly Another popular alternative, Ow.ly is a link shortener from the leading social media application known as HootSuite. It's only one of the most popular social media management tools currently out there! Do E-Commerce and Analytics360 data figures not match on your campaign report? Due to the differences in Google Analytics and MailChimp tracking, it's normal for Analytics360 and E-Commerce revenue figures to vary. 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. View Click Results on the Clicked Page To view a list of all recipients that clicked any tracked link in the campaign, follow these steps.
Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call. A Microsoft Security Brief recommends the creation of short-lived URLs, but for reasons explicitly of security rather than convenience.[6] History[edit] An early reference is US Patent 6957224, which describes ...a system, method and computer program product for providing links to remotely located information in a network of remotely connected computers. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year. On Twitter and some instant-messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. You need to be signed in to your bit.ly account before you can enter tracking data for the link. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Maybe, the footer bar and the after post banner is working the best, but your sidebar ad is not. Other Helpful Macros If you have sites that you frequently link out to or have partnerships with, you might want to roll up the click events by domain name. Clicks: The total number of times this link has been clicked.