With a free account, your links are good for 7 days or 100 clicks. Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics. If you notice a difference in how links perform against each other, you may decide to change how your emails are laid out, or you may start to pay more attention to which pictures or phrases you use. Interestingly, that same infographic suggests that posting shortened URLs later in the week will give them a “longer lifespan”, clicking many days after it was posted.
Use A Custom Domain With Link Shorteners With services like Domainr and IWantMyName, you can easily get a custom domain to use with link shorteners. Initially Twitter automatically translated URLs longer than twenty-six characters using TinyURL, although it began using bit.ly instead in 2009[10] and later developed its own URL shortening service, t.co. Join 250,000 in-the-know marketers and get the latest marketing tips, tactics, and news right in your inbox. Interestingly, that same infographic suggests that posting shortened URLs later in the week will give them a “longer lifespan”, clicking many days after it was posted.
You should not see any warnings and the page should load normally.Facebook doesn’t offer an analytics feature that allows you to track clicks on links added to the Facebook wall. You can’t deny the usefulness of them with social media (especially Twitter) and the additional layer of analytics you can get on your links.
Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. A total of five parameters are automatically appended when you enable Google Analytics: utm_campaign: will automatically be the name of the campaign as it appears in Sailthru. utm_medium: will automatically be “email”. utm_source: will automatically be “Sailthru”. utm_term: will automatically be the name of the sending list as it appears in Sailthru. utm_content: if you are sending an AB Split or AB Winner or Auto Winner Campaign, this utm parameter will be added to your links.
Publishers using the publisher interface can also generate tracking links using features similar to those available in this panel. The process must be fast, not handle clicks which have been deactivated by other processes and ensure links work even if the Analytics event fails. Additionally, if a link source is moved between the NTFS 3. If the URL you want isn't available, please select a different one. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any page on your site. The process must be fast, not handle clicks which have been deactivated by other processes and ensure links work even if the Analytics event fails.