Some shortening services, such as goo.gl, tinyurl.com, and bit.ly can generate URLs that are human-readable, although the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this.
On Twitter and some instant-messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. Instead, think of source as a label identifying where the email came from or the kind of email it is. This link example: www.tiny.cc/ contains an error due to the missing protocol.
Open the app where you would like to paste the address. People have learned that shortened links can lead to any random spam page on the web. Additionally, pageview calculations are unaffected by user activity tracked using the Event Tracking method. Just a Few of the Available Sites I won’t claim to be familiar with all the possible URL shortening sites you could use. You should not put information in this field that you have in other fields.
The SEO issue isn’t an issue, according to Google’s Matt Cutts. Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. You may add larger groups in-between, though, like different offers, campaigns or otherwise. 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. You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com.[clarification needed] The .ly TLD is controlled by the Libyan government, which has previously removed one domain deemed incompatible with Muslim law.[12] Any shortened URL generated with bitly can also be accessed by replacing that domain with any one of the following: bitly.com j.mp (registered to bitly, and using the top-level domain of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States).
In the olden days, if you wanted Google Analytics to track a specific click on a link, you used to have to ask a web developer to fix this up for you. 4 (6/27/2015) Fixed an issue where the https shortened urls wouldn’t return correctly Update 1. Add &projection=FULL to the API URL, like this: curl '' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "", "status": "OK", "created": "2009-12-13T07:22:55. Additionally, this website is designed to be easy to use with any smartphone or tablet. The Tickets Sold chart is another great tracking feature, letting you visualize the progress of your sales. Therefore, if a link source is moved to a FAT file system volume the tracking information is lost. Before You Start Here are some things to know before you begin this process. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 5 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 5, 2011 Thanks. TinyURL was used by early bloggers before many of these other services were around. This appends one of the two following parameters to the tracking link: url_id random_url When the url_id parameter is added to the tracking link, the numerical ID value references the ID of an additional offer URL in the offer that the affiliate can redirect traffic to: If there is more than one offer URL added in the offer, there will also be an option to select a random URL from the list. You will need to make sure you have the standard google tracking script on your page too. In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo! But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. When a request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is searched for an associated URL. It is simple to change your permalink structure, though if you have been blogging for a while you will need to redirect your old URLs to the new permalinks. Understand who my readers are, which books are getting clicks and purchases and which marketing channel is working best.