For example, label the company logo that shows up on each email as "logo", or the main picture in an email as "main picture". Google offers several free, online courses designed to help increase your analytics knowledge. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Easily manage multiple brands and business lines from one Tinycc account. You may want to know how your announcement emails perform compared to your regular emails listing current specials. It is where a link tracker tool comes in handy and will do the job that would take you forever to do.
Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. In this example you would use in place of your affiliate URL and when clicked on, it would instantly redirect to your affiliate URL which never appears in the browser address bar before clicking. • A second html method for website owners is to use an iframe. If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. Once upon a time, the best link building campaigns involved using the same anchor text and quantity was more important than quality.
In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo! Custom Short Links To help combat concerns about following shortened URLs, many major websites have started registering their own custom short links. When you schedule a link Tweet via Hootsuite, you can shorten the link to an owl.ly link. owl.ly/0a0b0c0 Google: As always, Google has something for you too. Top-level domains of countries such as Libya (.ly), Samoa (.ws), Mongolia (.mn), Malaysia (.my) and Liechtenstein (.li) have been used as well as many others. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. Paste your Google Universal Analytics Tracking ID.
Link Masking Potential buyers sometimes avoid clicking if they can see that the link involves marketing efforts or affiliate commisions. See the company's blog to learn more about the changes that are taking place. More » TinyURL.com TinyURL used to be one of the top shortening choice in the past, and people still use it a lot today, however it does include a couple more characters compared to others like Bit.ly and Goo.gl.
Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). And as with YouTube, if that limit was hit, they just have to add another number, which raises the limit to 1,152,921,504,606,846,976. If you provide one, the short URL will be unique, and it will show up in the authenticated user's dashboard at goo.gl. Here’s some of the click tracking information you’ll see in your overview. You should use the one that’s right for your use case, but below is what I typically use on this site.