Some shortening services, such as goo.gl, tinyurl.com, and bit.ly can generate URLs that are human-readable, although the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service. Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default. When someone pastes this shorter URL in their browser, they are initially directed to the Bitly site. Build trust & increase click rate: people tend to click on the links that they trust rather than unknown URLs (ie. bit.ly/buSzh might be a spam link). If your custom URL scheme is “myapp://”, you can use trackers such as: Deep links are compatible with all other tracker parameters.
In this case you can use Google’s Disavow Link tool in Google Webmaster Tools to let Google know that you don’t approve of that link. Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it?
You can now return to the URL shortening service’s homepage at any time to view click stats for the link you posted to your Facebook wall. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. If there's something tny.im can't do, contact us and we'll implement it for you.Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 28 Dec 2010 More Firefox plugin is coming soon ! 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.
One of the most commonly asked question was how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics? Plus+ Tracking If you have a Professional account, you can use our exclusive Plus+ Tracking feature to create special use tracking campaigns and sub-campaigns within your accout. Make sure your Google Analytics settings allow E-commerce data All done.
Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing.
You can also get a general overview of both open and click statistics from the Campaigns page in your account.
Just keep in mind that there are a couple more characters in this option as compared to others like Bit.ly, Goo.gl and Ow.ly, so it's not exactly the shortest URL shortener.Welcome to TinyURL!™ Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? If you're driving internal pay-per-click traffic and want to pass the cost per click through the tracking link, you can use the following parameter: payout To enable this feature, go to Company > Customize Application > Settings > Tracking.
There are other masking or cloaking techniques but most are frowned on by search engines due to potential for abuse and usually make use of javascript, server configuration or scripting languages such as php or perl. When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.