Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists. This may sometimes be done using short, CAPTCHA-protected URLs, but this is not common.[3] Makers of URL shorteners usually register domain names with less popular or esoteric Top-level domains in order to achieve a short URL and a catchy name, often using domain hacks.
More over, all these statistics & reports come with no cost. Shorten URL (e.g. bit.ly/buSzh) is meaningless because readers don’t know where the link is directing to. Link shortening service vb.ly was shut down back in 2010 by Libya, which leads to the problematic fact of link shortening: you depend upon a third-party service to deliver visitors through your shortened links. Creating the Link Click Listener The Link Click Listener tag allows you to capture user click events on all or specific targeted links. Reporting breaks down by person, location, and device type. Examples of this are rickrolling, redirecting to shock sites, or to affiliate websites.
Additional language profiles have the same URL, but LinkedIn will add a language field at the end. You can always view clicks over a period of 24 hours, a month, and a custom date range.
And getting me a web page is kind of the most important thing the web does…Every redirect is a one more point of failure, one more domain that can rot, one more server that can go down, one more layer between me and the content. If done properly, you should have in the above box.
Copy your event page URL from Eventbrite and paste the URL into a new property in your Google Universal Analytics account and copy the created Tracking ID. Export your data to Excel, text, PDF or XML for paid accounts. Even after labels are published and in the hands of customers. Search engines care about redirects because when they see one, they need to decide how to pass link popularity. The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue.