Buffer: If you currently use Buffer or manage your social media channels this is a great platform. You'll also get detailed statistics for every link when you sign up for an account, and you're paid via PayPal for payouts as low as $5. More » Bit.do Bit.do is another great alternative that's both simple and powerful. This service is provided without warranty of any kind.Twitter messages have limited real estate, and you have to make your characters count.
Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS. The service will remember your visit and display a list of the links you’ve shortened. I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions.
But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. It frees up valuable real estate in social messages. They began to allow publishers to track the links they posted with analytics.
One of the most commonly asked question was how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics? Important: To keep the click from being recorded for payout, you must be logged into your HasOffers account with the same browser you use for the test.
Track Unique Visitors With a Professional account, we'll analyze your tracking data and tell you which visitors are unique. On 14 August 2009 WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.[11] In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2. That would help you determine whether the announcement emails are worthwhile or perhaps whether the regular emails need to be reformatted. Bitly may be the authoritative champ of URL shorteners in the Twitterverse (before t.co / Twitter was propelled a year ago), however Redirecting has analytics covered. This will create an instant redirect from your domain name to affiliate URL. ( --> ) The customer will never see the destination URL in their browser address bar ahead of time. And as with YouTube, if that limit was hit, they just have to add another number, which raises the limit to 1,152,921,504,606,846,976. With that said, if you do need to track your URLs, or you want alternative ways to post there are plenty of ways to do it: Bit.ly: Probably the most popular URL shortener for Twitter because it was one of the first to let you track your tiny URLs. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand? You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them. In addition to easy link shortening, you can use the service with your own domain, customize the characters at the end of your links, get real-time statistics and even see which countries your clicks are coming from. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered.