The second condition makes sure that we’re not capturing any relative links that typically looks like href="/some-url-path". Take a look at your social media feeds and you’ll see that link shortening has really caught on as a practice. Type any message that you want to add to the link into the text input field. Tag each link in an email with a different ad content so that you can see which links get clicked on the most, and how traffic from each link compares once the visitors are on the site.
Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co. Twitter.com: The truth is that the best URL shortener for Twitter is the one that’s built into Twitter.
Creating a shortened page slug is simple in WordPress. There are several techniques to implement a URL shortening. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. If search engines have not indexed suspicious sites, you can remove them. 2) Search engines automatically find links when they exist on public pages.
Capturing Only External Link Clicks The firing rules is where all the magic happens. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. It’s very simple interface will allow you create custom URLs so that it’s not just a random mix of letters and numbers if you want. bit.ly/0a0b0c0 TinyURL: Another one of the first, if not the first URL shorteners for Twitter. Under Tracking, click the Google Analytics link tracking box.
Therefore, as a Twitter marketer who needs to track link performance, you should use bit.ly. It works almost immediately and you can shorten as much as you want, anytime. To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. Vanity Links You can make custom vanity links with any premium account. In this example, we’re creating tag that tracks any click on an email address. Set the Media Source Name: Either add the name of the media source manually in the box or click one of the tabs (e.g. “Email”). It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones. Our agency activities and custom domain portfolio remains private and secure. If you create a tracker in the dashboard - let’s say we call it “AdNetwork” - you’ll receive a URL like: Onto this URL, you are able to add the “campaign” parameter to segment users into different campaigns: Any user clicking on a URL with the “campaign=CAMPAIGN_1” parameter would be assigned to the “CAMPAIGN_1” sublevel within your top network tracker “AdNetwork”.