Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter. In the background, Analytics sends data by requesting an image beacon. This results in registration of different URL shorteners with a myriad of different countries, leaving no relation between the country where the domain has been registered and the URL shortener itself or the shortened links. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums.
Use this feature to keep data longer than 30 days, send it to clients, or do custom analysis. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 4 Dec 2012 More iPad users can connect with friends to count down til their favorite movie premieres!
See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. You can test that the certificate files were successfully processed by using one of your Hosted Pages. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 359: + Added feature: include title when posting to Twitter/StatusNet Thanks. This automatic behavior provides the best possible experience to your app users who open goo.gl links, no matter what platform or device they are on. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. If you have a large Twitter following, tweeting a link to your followers is a surefire way of getting many views.
You can test that the certificate files were successfully processed by using one of your Hosted Pages. You’ll see a nice overlay at the bottom that tells you what Google Tag Manager is currently “hearing”: Go ahead and click on an email address (you may want to open the link in a new window). It would be advisable first to list all the links to your site and if you find any suspicious links, use this utility to examine it. You can also view a world map where your last 50 clicks came from.
Google has possibly started this process for you but the tracking code must be updated on your website pages. When we shorten a link, it appears like so: Our URLs are shortened and we can still use the tracking features in Bit.ly, but instead of our readers seeing Bit.ly in the shortened links, they see our custom domain. MailChimp pulls Google Analytics data each day at 08:15 UTC (04:15 EST) and takes approximately 24 hours to run. Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark. At that time, Google will completely disable the URL shortener and all associated data will be lost.