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. It is more focused on what happens once a visitor comes to your site.Google Analytics provides an overwhelming quantity of information.
Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. In this case, this is what I used: Category: Email Link Click – I manually named this, so it’s easy for me to see that this category includes any link on an email address.
If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. So in the next few pages, you will learn how to shorten links for Twitter. To shorten links for Twitter, you don’t need to do too much techy stuff.
Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. In choosing a source, think in terms of broad categories so that you can do roll-up reports for each type of email. It’s very simple interface will allow you create custom URLs so that it’s not just a random mix of letters and numbers if you want. bit.ly/0a0b0c0 TinyURL: Another one of the first, if not the first URL shorteners for Twitter.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. Easily manage multiple brands and business lines from one Tinycc account. This will allow you to plan your content strategy accordingly. We've seen with new accounts it can take a few days to actually have data start populating in the MailChimp account.