I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them. All thats left is to simply copy this tracking URL and send it off to the respective network to let them do their work!!
It wasn’t long before link shorteners quickly became more than mere link shorteners. Affiliate Click ID & Unique Values Click IDs and other unique values (like user hashes and programmatic API values) often reference individual clicks or sessions in other tracking systems. The link on your desktop will change accordingly to the new location of the file on the file server.
Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". To enable it, you can upload your own SSL certificate for the link domain using the same workflow that Sailthru provides for enabling Apple’s iOS Universal Links. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface.
If it’s an outbound link, we’ll cancel the click event and initiate Analytics event tracking. This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. Autotrack uses events to track outbound link clicks and sets the event label to the link's URL. It's just not possible for us to pick up and maintain the Client ID in the same way. Click Macro Redirect You can specify a custom click macro by first enabling the offer tracking setting, and then passing in a URL using the following parameter: redirect For this parameter, you can include either the {redirect} or {eredirect} macro to track your clicks in another tracking system. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "".
Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. Once implemented, visit your site and click a few outbound links. SOCIAL as a short and memorable name that forwards directly to your LinkedIn profile. Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button. Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that uses both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "AFFSUB" and "SOURCE" placeholder values. Track sales in real time from any device with 24/7 access to more than 15 different reports and chart views. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. On the Links tab, Click Performance displays your tracked URLs and the number of total and unique clicks for each.