Subscribe See why 200,000 companies worldwide love Campaign Monitor. Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting. It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links.
Privacy and security[edit] A short URL obscures the target address and can be used to redirect to an unexpected site. When using Google Analytics to track your link, the most common setup is to have the Javascript tracking code for Google Analytics placed on a page where your contacts visit. They never place a “naked” link on any other website, especially is its an affiliate link.
Tracking Visits from Emails Tracking visitors that come from emails is simple enough if you use campaign tracking for each link. You can perform the following operations on object IDs: Creation Deletion Query When you create an object ID, you establish the identity of the file to the link tracking service. You can access detailed campaign click stats from the report Overview, the Click Performance, and the Clicked pages in the campaign report. Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics. This is the best tool you will ever find because we are the most reliable and featured. Without taking this step, visits from emails will be recorded inconsistently.
Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right? This may sometimes be done using short, CAPTCHA-protected URLs, but this is not common.[3] Makers of URL shorteners usually register domain names with less popular or esoteric Top-level domains in order to achieve a short URL and a catchy name, often using domain hacks. In those cases, you can add the following parameters to your affiliate tracking link for your publisher to provide more data: Source & Affiliate Sub IDs Some of the most commonly used parameters are the traffic source and affiliate sub ID parameters: source aff_sub aff_sub2 aff_sub3 aff_sub4 aff_sub5 These parameters are used to store non-unique session information from the affiliate’s tracking system that they want passed back on conversion. This method can create some clever domains and also have the advantage of using the domain extension itself as part of the word or words you're trying to convey. When you check the box to enable tracking, we'll show the campaign title as it will appear in your Google Analytics account after the campaign is sent.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 359: + Added feature: include title when posting to Twitter/StatusNet Thanks. Click outside the box to update your generated tracking link. As an example of how link tracking works, if your site’s domain is example.com, your link domain might be set to link.example.com. This article is part of our HasOffers Basics series. The name of the computer that holds the link source is renamed. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry. 0 or later within the same domain, the file can be found by the tracking service, subject to time considerations. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. Check Enable OneLink to convert the custom tracking link to OneLink, while retaining all the added parameters to the link. You should see the activity in the Analytics Real-Time > Events panel.