If you click the shortened link on bit.ly, you get access to detailed traffic information related to number of clicks, referring Web sites, and geographic locations of the users who clicked. You cant just go there and type how your day went and expect Twitter to accept that.
And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it. A total of five parameters are automatically appended when you enable Google Analytics: utm_campaign: will automatically be the name of the campaign as it appears in Sailthru. utm_medium: will automatically be “email”. utm_source: will automatically be “Sailthru”. utm_term: will automatically be the name of the sending list as it appears in Sailthru. utm_content: if you are sending an AB Split or AB Winner or Auto Winner Campaign, this utm parameter will be added to your links. For segment A, the value will be “A”, for B, “B” and “Final” for the Final version of the AB Winner/Auto Winner test. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database.
According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites. Google Analytics won't track redirects that don't contain embedded Google Analytics code. The unknown levels will be shown as ‘unknown’ in your dashboard when there is data for other sublevels.
With Twitter, you just have to be as simple and short as possible. And http:// www.tiny.cc is not a required format because the tiny.cc site happens to be configured without a subdomain (www. was made optional). is shorter and boiled down to only the required parts that make a URL functional: protocol + domain + top level domain (http:// + tiny + .cc). What Link Shorteners Do (And Don’t Do) Link shorteners were originally created to address stubborn email systems that wrapped an email after 80 characters and broke any long URLs that might have been in the message.
When setting up a new campaign or setting up a new traffic source, think about questions like: How is this source structured? Select the “Google Universal Analytics” tracking pixel button. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. After using the backlink check tool you can use this tool to further analyze the value of each individual link. Tracking external links Track the clicking of external links (exit links) on your pages. We then redirect the user to the destination URL. In this case, each character in the sequence will be 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, a, b, c, ..., y, z. Click the owl head in the upper-left corner of the screen. This has been risky in the past because errors can result whenever users manually enter links. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks. Orientation: How you decide to design your site's layout may be influenced by whether your users view your site primarily in landscape or portrait mode. In this article, you will learn how to control, review, and interpret click tracking.