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.
Autotrack uses events to track outbound link clicks and sets the event label to the link's URL. Click tracking in Sailthru is done through your link subdomain. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. They can hide their nefarious links in a shortened URL meaning people either clicked on the links and quickly learned to either never trust a shortened link, or to always use a link extraction site (e.g. WhereDoesThisLinkGo) to see where the shortened link actually went before they clicked. We've seen with new accounts it can take a few days to actually have data start populating in the MailChimp account.
And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it. Top-level domains of countries such as Libya (.ly), Samoa (.ws), Mongolia (.mn), Malaysia (.my) and Liechtenstein (.li) have been used as well as many others.
Click the Shorten Link button to convert the OneLink to a short one. Note For deep linking with iOS Universal Links or Android App Links ,retrieving the shortlink's query parameters is supported from SDK versions 4.Check out this address: If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. And though it is unlikely that Bit.ly will be shut down, they are still a middleman.
If you have a large Twitter following, tweeting a link to your followers is a surefire way of getting many views. If it contains any query strings such as ? & = then it is a dynamic URL. eg: 357&sort=date (Note also that blank spaces are never allowed in a web address). Changing your URL several times may make it hard for people to find you. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any page on your site. TinyURL: This shortener use to be all over the internet; however, lately it has died down. For example, you may not have more than 10,000 different values of creative for a particular tracker.