Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. In choosing a source, think in terms of broad categories so that you can do roll-up reports for each type of email. Bitly users suffer from a lot of abuse from the spammers, which degrades the efficiency and quality of bitly links. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. There are other methods of redirecting, but a 301 is the best choice if you are concerned about SEO. Browsers and servers talk back and forth using "headers" which contain various information.
Click the blue “Post” button to add the link to your page. If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF.
Tracking Links to your PDF Using Open Site Explorer you can take the full URL of your PDF and drop it directly into the search bar and click search. For example, if you send out weekly newsletters, this might be "newsletter".
On this page enter your Google Analytics tracking ID and click the Save button. For each time slice, shortUrlClicks and longUrlClicks should be present, but the rest may not be (e.g. if there were no clicks). Additionally, this website is designed to be easy to use with any smartphone or tablet. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks).
WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world. It's also worth considering leaving the most recognizable part of your name spelled out. Saving the Anchor Text with a Macro We’ll want to save the anchor text of the link. The only way to track clicks from your Facebook wall links is to use a URL shortening service for each external link that you post to your wall. You'll typically find the unsubscribe link in the footer. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”.