When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.
Just make a link to or use the following code to make a URL input box: Terms of use TinyURL was created as a free service to make posting long URLs easier, and may only be used for actual URLs. For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case). Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 18 May 2011 More Revision 357: Removed: piurl.com, tr.im, kl.am; Added: min.ms, mrte.ch, v.gd; Thanks. A few well-known websites have set up their own URL shortening services for their own use – for example, Twitter with t.co, and Google with goo.gl. However, Google Analytics can also provide you information about what users do when they come on your website, which banners or links they click the most, what product placements are working better on your website, which social media campaigns are bringing you more traffic, etc.
Turn your links on and off, point them to a new destination or add new options any time. In this case, this is what I used: Category: Email Link Click – I manually named this, so it’s easy for me to see that this category includes any link on an email address.
Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that includes both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "CLICKID" and "UNIQUEVALUE" placeholder values.
Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. Organize them by group, add notes and use our search feature to find them quickly. For example, to expand , send the following request: GET For instance, you could issue the following curl command: curl '' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "", "status": "OK" } id is the short URL you passed in. longUrl is the long URL to which it expands. Object Identifiers The link tracking service maintains its link to an object by using an object identifier (ID). Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection. A circumvention could be that a website provided its own shortlinks instead of relying on a third-party shortening service – but this is not common.