All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. For segment A, the value will be “A”, for B, “B” and “Final” for the Final version of the AB Winner/Auto Winner test. Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs: Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 11 May 2011 More Statistics for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Thanks. Google Analytics won't work if there is a space after the URL in the campaign.
Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. Google’s URL Shortener is handy, though it does allow anyone to access the public analytics on each link.
Your link stats will also be public if you use this service. It is highly recommended to enable if you are using Google Analytics on your site. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing.
Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 24 Jun 2011 More Firefox Vision Statement Thanks. Just make a link to or use the following code to make a URL input box: Terms of use TinyURL was created as a free service to make posting long URLs easier, and may only be used for actual URLs. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. Take a look at your social media feeds and you’ll see that link shortening has really caught on as a practice. Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover.
Maybe you find an interesting photo or song, or you want to refer people to another article someone else wrote. So set-up URL forwarding (using a 301 redirect) to . Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right? All of the links in an email ought to be tagged with campaign variables, specifying the campaign, the source and which link was clicked. Once you’ve mapped out your plan, then you can start creating tags. 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. Click on the space to enter your link and paste it there. You can use your own short URLs to point to different pages on your site. The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing.