Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 21 Dec 2012 More Thanks. If you need to change your URL on your social network page, it's easy to do.) Bitly Bitly is at the top of the URL shortening game. Start selling tickets in minutes with a simple set-up process.
The Google Analytics account has to be set up and configured before the tracked campaign is sent. For example, say you are using UTM codes to track website traffic.
A common mistake is to duplicate information in this field from other fields. However, you or your publisher may want to use additional parameters to store information. A link converted by Twitter’s link service is checked against a list of potentially dangerous sites. My inbox was transformed into a hyper-aware entity. If you need assistance with your account, please contact our support team.Track outbound links Find out when users click a link to leave your site.
For example: Services Brochure In the above URL we’ve added the parameter “?pdf=Services-Brochure” to the end of the PDF URL link. Some will show up as a referral from a webmail address, like mail.yahoo.com. You could create a complex UTM code structure for a link but then shorten it via Bitly and use the link on a piece of direct mail. 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.
This method is safe and would definitely save you a lot of stress. In the Settings & Tracking section of the Campaign Builder, check the box next to Google Analytics link tracking. You can also find out how many clicks your particular bit.ly link got compared to the total clicks on the long link. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. HootSuite also allows you to view a dashboard that tracks clicks for each shortened link shared in the management system. Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. OneLink™ enables using a single link to diagnose and redirect users to different locations based on their devices' type. Google Analytics won't work if there is a space after the URL in the campaign. In those cases, you can add the following parameters to your affiliate tracking link for your publisher to provide more data: Source & Affiliate Sub IDs Some of the most commonly used parameters are the traffic source and affiliate sub ID parameters: source aff_sub aff_sub2 aff_sub3 aff_sub4 aff_sub5 These parameters are used to store non-unique session information from the affiliate’s tracking system that they want passed back on conversion. A lot of people and companies avoid using Google Analytics and other Google products out of fear that they're giving Google too much information. Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs: Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around. Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option. 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. Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark.