There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination. While this solution might not compete with the extremely short URLs that link shortening services can provide (and without the equivalent analytics packages), it would avoid the link shortening middleman and let your user know at a glance where your link will take them. — Is link shortening for you? Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs: Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around. When a user clicks on a link that is being listened to, Google Tag Manager fires off a gtm.linkClick event.
You can add parameters that help track certain campaigns or store values from an affiliate's tracking system. This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page.
Here are just a few that seem to be popular: Bitly: TinyURL.com: Goo.gl: To find more options, just type “url shortening” or “url shortening services” into your favorite search engine. Google Analytics even has a URL Builder tool where you can generate a URL with UTM parameters.
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Creating large sets of extremely small segments will not result in useful data for your analysis. Our agency activities and custom domain portfolio remains private and secure. Free users can choose between “go.clickmeter.com“ or “9nl.com“ as a domain name for their tracking link, while pro users can choose their own domain name. Is this part of a broader campaign to talk about a new product? They can also be maintained when a link source is moved within a computer. Your highest-level network tracker is always generated manually, but the other three levels can be generated automatically with campaign structure parameters. It’s a pain, but the outbound link tracking code shown below won’t work without it. (It could be made to work with legacy Analytics, but it’ll eventually stop working so it’s best to upgrade now.) Custom Event Tracking Analytics supports event tracking. This results in registration of different URL shorteners with a myriad of different countries, leaving no relation between the country where the domain has been registered and the URL shortener itself or the shortened links.