Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine! The general idea people have about Google Analytics is that it tells you how many vistors and pageviews you are getting, where the traffic is coming from, and what content is popular on your website. A short link which expires, or can be terminated, has some security advantages. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks.
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. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 26 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 26, 2011 Thanks. You can use your own short URLs to point to different pages on your site.
To quote John Wanamaker, the father of modern advertising: So which half of your advertising is a waste of money? This is a great solution if your landing page is an actual URL your contacts will be visiting. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. A total of five parameters are automatically appended when you enable Google Analytics: utm_campaign: will automatically be the name of the campaign as it appears in Sailthru. utm_medium: will automatically be “email”. utm_source: will automatically be “Sailthru”. utm_term: will automatically be the name of the sending list as it appears in Sailthru. utm_content: if you are sending an AB Split or AB Winner or Auto Winner Campaign, this utm parameter will be added to your links. Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content.
In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc. I like twitter because it stands out uniquely with awesome features. But since these keys are unique, you would need to specify a key that is not yet being used through that site. However, there are many instances where you or your publisher may want to keep track of additional information. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs. Or you can use a utility to display all the backlinks to your site and copy them from there.
Social media dashboard and notifications keeps me on top of what people are saying online about our brands. Create smart link targets to automatically route visitors by language or operating system so that we end up with engaged customers instead of bounces. If your website has thousands of backlinks, you can forget about physically sitting down and tracking each link. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. 6. V.gd V.gd is presented by the same company as Is.gd. The comparison continues here: Goo.gl Vs Bitly Best Way To Shorten Urls.Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service offered by Google.