Enabling Ad-hoc link tracking Configure your Adobe Analytics framework to enable ad-hoc link tracking. Open the app where you would like to paste the address. The examples use curl and OACurl to show you how to get started interacting with the API quickly, right from the command line.
It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. Whenever you paste a link into Buffer to be scheduled to post at a later time, it automatically shortens the link for you.
Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now. These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. When you Googling something like “Bitly alternatives” you will see so many options. While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business. And though it is unlikely that Bit.ly will be shut down, they are still a middleman.
Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles. Can generate transcribable short links in printed brochures for publicity events.
While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right? Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. Downloadable Reports With a Professional account, you can download your data any time for offline use. Want to learn how to drastically increase your traffic with a simple strategy? A common example of this is when publishers want to pre-populate a lead generation form with user contact information to help improve conversion rates.