But otherwise, the free account is useful enough for comprehensive link tracking. With its own URL shortener, you can ensure that your long links are kept safe and secure for your visitors. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. The macro below will allow you to grab just the hostname from the outbound URL.
This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns. This appends one of the two following parameters to the tracking link: url_id random_url When the url_id parameter is added to the tracking link, the numerical ID value references the ID of an additional offer URL in the offer that the affiliate can redirect traffic to: If there is more than one offer URL added in the offer, there will also be an option to select a random URL from the list. This makes to total sense when you look at how an email address link is formatted: sales@wearefine.com That’s it! Include a link to a survey on some of our packaging labels.
TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. Click the blue “Post” button to add the link to your page. For more information on how to set up Google Analytics tracking manually, take a look at Google's help pages for URL building and tagging your links. If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF. As you'll need to be using Google Tag Manager for this, it's as simple as using the Universal Analytics tag template.
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. Check out Mozilla’s Developer Network documentation on textContent to understand some of the differences. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways.
Aside from the custom domains that you can use with the premium option, you can also view campaign comparison charts, download the data as an excel file, filter clicks data, and much more. There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination. On this page enter your Google Analytics tracking ID and click the Save button. 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.