Using it for spamming or illegal purposes is forbidden and any such use will result in the TinyURL being disabled and you may be reported to all ISPs involved and to the proper governmental agencies. Use remarketing links to repeatedly get my brands in front of interested eyeballs.
As an example, their tracking system could have a session ID macro that you use to replace "CLICKID", and another macro for a unique user hash that you use to replace "UNIQUEVALUE". Boom, ka-bang, you can now see your PDF's Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Avg. Just keep in mind that there are a couple more characters in this option as compared to others like Bit.ly, Goo.gl and Ow.ly, so it's not exactly the shortest URL shortener.URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. For example, "4" can be used for the "for" sound in a name. Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. 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.
The secret to high click-through rates involves some of the principles that apply to search engine optimization: Write a descriptive and catchy headline that’s relevant to most of your followers and have a network of people who are truly interested in hearing from you. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? Will it be a similar message throughout several emails? The network shares on the link source computer are changed.
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. Some offer features that go beyond a basic link shortener. Once you’ve mapped out your plan, then you can start creating tags. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists.
When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. Share Your Tracking Pages We built this feature specifically for customers who had their own clients and wanted to share their tracking data with them. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year. ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand? Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! Get an alert email when someone clicks your link. Go to Admin > Edit Posts, hover over the post link, look at the status bar, the number at the end of the URL is the post ID. This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress.