While this solution might not compete with the extremely short URLs that link shortening services can provide (and without the equivalent analytics packages), it would avoid the link shortening middleman and let your user know at a glance where your link will take them. — Is link shortening for you? Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly. Find the unsubscribe link in your campaign, right click, and copy the link address. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
But since these keys are unique, you would need to specify a key that is not yet being used through that site. To store unique session information—like click IDs or user hashes—use the affiliate click ID or unique value parameters instead. This service is provided without warranty of any kind.Welcome to TinyURL!™ Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together?
The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.Own Your Short Links on Twitter bit.ly offers URL shortening and link tracking services. However, I was thinking about possibly helping my sister grow her business.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”. Smartphone users now prefer bezel-less phones to large devices with not so good/large screen. The disconnection of the server caused us serious problems, and to be honest, the level and nature of the abuse has become quite demoralizing. We have already discussed how Google treats websites with spam links.
Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. Without taking this step, visits from emails will be recorded inconsistently. Does your website code allow the following external variables? utm_source= utm_campaign= utm_medium= For the sake of page security, a link is designed to fail if a query value outside of what is expected is fed in to a page. This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. If a member uses a URL and then changes it, that URL will be unavailable for use by other members for six months. How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? This will bring up: A) All linking root domains that are pointing to your PDF B) The page they are linking from C) The domain authority of their site.