Check out the following URL shortening providers that you can get started with using right away. (P. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks. Open the app where you would like to paste the address. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener.
This real-time report gives you detailed tracking information about every single click your link receives, as it happens. For consistency, use your URL shortener whenever possible, rather than mixing your own custom domain with other generic ones. You can easily manage links and view click statistics. This is it. tinyurl.com/0a0b0c0 Buffer: In order to shorten your URLs, you need to schedule your posts through Buffer who will put your posts in a queue and schedule them to go out at the times you preset. If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF.
People have learned that shortened links can lead to any random spam page on the web. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. Or maybe you’re using UTM tracking tags that make your link look ugly. Find the unsubscribe link in your campaign, right click, and copy the link address.
Some link shorteners end up on domain block lists because of heavy spammer use. You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet. In order to get the most out if this URL shortener you can integrate it with its parent service. You should see the activity in the Analytics Real-Time > Events panel. Note These link tracking schemes are transparent to the end-user. It depends on the amount of point of interest you need to track.
You could create a complex UTM code structure for a link but then shorten it via Bitly and use the link on a piece of direct mail. Each tracker represents a group of users that share a common source. Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Additionally, pageview calculations are unaffected by user activity tracked using the Event Tracking method. In order to form the key, a hash function can be made, or a random number generated so that key sequence is not predictable. You can also log into your Buffer account on the web or by downloading the mobile app to track your analytics and see how many clicks that your links have gotten.