If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. Our agency activities and custom domain portfolio remains private and secure.
This allows you to create new trackers on the fly by using data that is available to you when the user clicks an ad. However, depending on the ad environment, and the pop-up option selected, your user could be left unintentionally stranded. This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. But, Is.gd comes with an option to enable you to create a custom short URL.
To verify that the tracking pixel is firing, make an order for the event you added the tracking pixel to. It’s pretty cool because you don’t have to add it as a browser extension, but as a link to your Bitly account that shows up in the the sidebar.
Copy and paste the URL you create into your web browser's address bar, then press enter. How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? 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.
Scott Hanselman wrote a short but interesting post tracing the amount of redirection that happened on a single shortened link. It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks. Understand which one of my marketing channels or Ads are most effective and optimize digital Ad spend. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. Easily manage multiple brands and business lines from one Tinycc account. By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do.