Because we’re creating an event to track clicks on a specific type of link! Shorten Link Action Shortened links are very useful because: 1. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. Here’s Tom Scott to explain why YouTube will probably never run out of IDs.
Handy stuff for keyboard devotees, the add-on-averse, and for when you're working from a browser that's not your own.Check out this address: If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. Click the owl head in the upper-left corner of the screen. Scott Hanselman wrote a short but interesting post tracing the amount of redirection that happened on a single shortened link. Some will show up as a referral from a webmail address, like mail.yahoo.com. See the company's blog to learn more about the changes that are taking place. More » TinyURL.com TinyURL used to be one of the top shortening choice in the past, and people still use it a lot today, however it does include a couple more characters compared to others like Bit.ly and Goo.gl. Top links clicked The URLs that were clicked the most in your campaign. View Click Results on the Links Page The Links page tells you how each URL performed in the campaign.
Link shortening adds another of redirection to an “already creaky system“, according to Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page.
Was your Google Analytics account set up after the campaign went out? Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period.
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