URL shorteners typically work by redirecting users using a special server response commonly referred to as a "301." This tells the browser that the resource at your short URL has been permenantly moved to the full URL's location. Alternatively, if uppercase and lowercase letters are differentiated, then each character can represent a single digit within a number of base 62 (26 + 26 + 10). But if you do a search on terms such as “creating custom short urls”, you can find many articles that go into details of how to do this. 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.
Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. Track Unique Visitors With a Professional account, we'll analyze your tracking data and tell you which visitors are unique. That just means that each number from one to 18,014,398,509,481,984 can be encoded in the combination of nine characters Instagram uses in its URL, and the characters are 0 to 9, uppercase A - Z, lowercase a - z and two other characters (usually a + and a /, although Instagram probably uses a - and a _ if it uses 64 characters instead of 62). Complete control over which campaigns our clients can see in their accounts. This will allow you to plan your content strategy accordingly.
For example, use link tracking to learn how users interact with your site, track file downloads, and track exit links. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account. You can turn click tracking on and off in paid accounts after you've sent a few campaigns without generating any compliance issues.
Charts and Graphs Get free real-time graphs so you can clearly visualize your link activity and see where you're getting the most response. For your reference here is the Eventbrite Ecommerce naming conventions glossary to help you understand which Eventbrite fields will appear in you Google Analytics Ecommerce reports. We recommend using {eredirect} if your click macro URL contains a query string. After integrating, any short link which redirects to a web link that you have provided to Google through App Indexing will open automatically in your native app for your users.
A Microsoft Security Brief recommends the creation of short-lived URLs, but for reasons explicitly of security rather than convenience.[6] History[edit] An early reference is US Patent 6957224, which describes ...a system, method and computer program product for providing links to remotely located information in a network of remotely connected computers. Therefore it's important to keep a tack of the links to your website. Finally, Event Tracking employs an object-oriented model that you can use to collect and classify different types of interaction with your web page objects. To pass a custom transaction ID in your tracking link, append the following parameter: ad_id You or your publisher needs to insert an externally generated transaction ID value in this parameter before the click registers in HasOffers. AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener. 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. Free users can choose between “go.clickmeter.com“ or “9nl.com“ as a domain name for their tracking link, while pro users can choose their own domain name. Once implemented, visit your site and click a few outbound links. Eventbrite _eboga parameter Handily, Eventbrite has a solution for this. In the background, Analytics sends data by requesting an image beacon. HootSuite also allows you to view a dashboard that tracks clicks for each shortened link shared in the management system.