Setup only takes a few minutes from your iwantmyname dashboard. You are also able to use the same tools such as bookmarklets and third-party apps using their API with your custom domain name. 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. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
If you already have a domain you want to use just point it at our site and add it to your account. Upgrade my links by putting my name in a custom domain and sharing with friends, family and on social media. Once you’ve pressed this, you’ll be brought to the URL Forwarding page. Link preview Afraid of clicking on a short link without knowing where it goes? This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 18 Mar 2010 More was updated yesterday.
You can also copy the link and paste it into a new window. If you use a third-party for some of your emails, you might use that third-party's name. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 Jun 2011 More Revision 362: * Updated toolbarbutton styles Thanks. Additionally, pageview calculations are unaffected by user activity tracked using the Event Tracking method. Take a Quick Tour Know when your email is opened Get instant alerts on every email open, link click, and attachment download. Outbound link tracking The table below shows the top ten links visitors to this site have clicked on in the last seven days.
By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do. But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. Alternate and Custom Domains Do you love our service, but hate our domain name? These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use.
Now, it’s easy to set up tracking for almost any type of link click, without a dev needing to add custom code. (Caveat: in certain cases, you may need some additional dev help, but this post focuses on the simplest types of implementations.) STEP 0: Make Sure You’re Using GTM 🙂 First, ensure you’ve got Google Tag Manager configured and working on your website. Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. But now I have the option to make special mistake-proof short links for print purposes. Or you can use a utility to display all the backlinks to your site and copy them from there. Even after labels are published and in the hands of customers. After you have an API key, your application can append the query parameter key=yourAPIKey to all request URLs. Other link tracker software use only cookies, which severely limits what you can track and how you track. If the request doesn't require authorization (such as a request for public data), then the application must provide either the API key or an OAuth 2. Without tracking those metrics, how do you know which method is working the best? As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co.