Ad Content The ad content field is where you can start to learn exactly how you should be formatting your emails. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 11 May 2011 More Statistics for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Thanks. Another simple one, you just paste it in and go. goo.gl/0a0b0c0 Then there are the ones that people hook up to autofeed into their Twitter accounts, and most of those come with their own shorteners. You can always view clicks over a period of 24 hours, a month, and a custom date range. You can copy/paste the backlink URLs that you want to check from your website. We’ll use the GA Event tracking feature to capture all the information.
Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. Take a look at your social media feeds and you’ll see that link shortening has really caught on as a practice. When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. Open the Universal Links settings page in My Sailthru under Setup > Universal Links. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways.
Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). With a custom domain for your link shortener, people will see that you are not spamming and they will be more likely to click on your custom domain shortened link than a generic shortened link. On Bitly, click the “Info Page +” link to view statistics. Abbreviate or shorten: Use common abbreviations to make things shorter or just chop off some letters of your name. Use custom domains to multiply click-throughs and increase the public's awareness of my brands.
The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. Creating the External Link Tracker The last step is to send the link click event, along with the anchor text and URL, to Google Universal Analytics.
That would help you determine whether the announcement emails are worthwhile or perhaps whether the regular emails need to be reformatted. 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. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Facebook has this new colored status background feature that works when your status is short and straight to the point. An example Turn this URL: X0DER&pf_rd_s=center-10&pf_rd_r=11EYKTN682A79T370AM3&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1270985982&pf_rd_i=B002Y27P3M into this TinyURL: Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? Hootsuite users will see their links shortened, but non-Hootsuite users can also use the shortener. To quote John Wanamaker, the father of modern advertising: So which half of your advertising is a waste of money? With our unique CTID, you are much less dependent on cookies, and have more reliable data. DyingLinks gives you control over how long you want your shortened link to be available, along with some other control and privacy features. In the “Auto-Append Link Parameters” field write the new or current parameter with its respective value, such as utm_medium=MorningEmail You can turn on this setting independent of the Link Tracking setting. 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.