Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter. See time spent on attachments Find out exactly how long email recipients are spending on your presentation slides and any other PDF or PPT file you send. Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. So if you have a page at , you can use the URL and going to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs.
For example, if a shell shortcut is created to link to a text document, the text document is the link source, and the shell shortcut is the link client. You can also log into your Buffer account on the web or by downloading the mobile app to track your analytics and see how many clicks that your links have gotten.
Link Tracker Keeping track of the links to a website can be quite a tedious task especially if you decide to check every link to your site. Click the button next to 'All Events' and add the Tracking ID for your Google Analytics property. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck. A summary of this traffic is found in your Google Analytics reporting under Traffic Sources.
Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks). Backlinks are followed by Google's robot to check if it’s a valid link. Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button.
More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site. Tag Type: Select either “Universal Analytics” or “Classic Analytics”, depending on whichever you are using. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally powerful server-side analytics engine, and unlike the latter, does not require any access to the server. The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.Geniuslink: smarter links for commerce Geniuslink offers URL shortening with your own custom branded domain powered by the most intelligent link management platform in existence. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private. For Adjust’s API Attribution partners you do not have to create a tracker, as Adjust’s API connection with this partner is sufficiant to concurrently create trackers as your campaigns are running. An object ID is an optional attribute that uniquely identifies a file or directory on a volume. If you already have Google Analytics code inserted in to your WordPress blog, remove that code.