Link shortening adds another of redirection to an “already creaky system“, according to Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[26] Blocking and banning[edit] Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard.
Professional account holders can set an alert threshold and receive a single email notification when their link reaches a certain number of clicks. This example assumes that you are using the analytics.js tracking code. You can always register additional domain names on our site. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. You can also learn how to track clicks on a link in Google analytics.
Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one.
Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. This is because an unknown percentage of your recipients read emails with a program that doesn't execute JavaScript or store cookies. Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs).
In other words, if you can discover which half of your advertising isn’t working, you can focus only on the half that is working, you can literally double your profits. ClickMeter is a link tracking tool that focuses on tracking links for your website so that you can monitor relevant clicks. Want to take your link tracking to the next level? As you shorten your links, Google will display them below with its long URL version, when it was created, its corresponding shortened goo.gl link and how many clicks it has received. Social media dashboard and notifications keeps me on top of what people are saying online about our brands. In order to address the fear of linkrot happening when a link shortening service shuts down, the Internet Archive started the 301 Works project in an attempt to preserve the link shortening databases should participating services shut down. Setting up a New Domain to forward to your LinkedIn is incredibly easy. Want to take your link tracking to the next level? Export your data to Excel, text, PDF or XML for paid accounts. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. If hosted elsewhere, in the ‘URL to the YOURLS API’ field enter ‘’.