I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. In November 2009, the shortened links of the URL shortening service Bitly were accessed 2.
You should use the one that’s right for your use case, but below is what I typically use on this site. After logging in to Eventbrite and creating an event find your event on the Manage Events page, and then select Manage. Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. Other Helpful Macros If you have sites that you frequently link out to or have partnerships with, you might want to roll up the click events by domain name. When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link.
Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! For those who read their emails in a browser (like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc.), they would still need to have HTML turned on for it to work, and even then, the email client may restrict whether any scripts embedded in the email can execute. Tracking ID You can either manually type your unique Google Analytics ID into this field (ex: UA-########-1) or use a convenient macro that plugs this in for you.
Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. Other link tracker software use only cookies, which severely limits what you can track and how you track.
Creating the External Link Tracker The last step is to send the link click event, along with the anchor text and URL, to Google Universal Analytics. Abuse[edit] URL shortening may be utilized by spammers or for illicit internet activities. How do you view your shortened links in HootSuite? Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. 2 (2/1/2015) Added captcha option Improved the overall design responsivness Updated to latest version of jQuery Migration from MySQL (deprecated in higher PHP versions) to MySQLi Fixed an issue where the API could return “userRateLimitExceededUnreg” Cleaned up some unused strings Update 1. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first. 2) Search engines automatically find links when they exist on public pages. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 359: + Added feature: include title when posting to Twitter/StatusNet Thanks. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year.