Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that includes both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "CLICKID" and "UNIQUEVALUE" placeholder values. If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. If you use an affiliate plugin to format your affiliate links into something like this then you will have to enable tracking of internal links as outbound links. It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck. If you already have a domain you want to use just point it at our site and add it to your account.
To manage click tracking in the plain-text version of your campaign, check or uncheck Track plain-text clicks. Click Save. With a custom domain for your link shortener, people will see that you are not spamming and they will be more likely to click on your custom domain shortened link than a generic shortened link. If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles.
The traffic that you drive to a URL will primarily be assigned to that URL, and the data in parameters will be added as long as they don’t conflict. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Furthermore, this URL shortener also has an option which you can choose to log the statistics of your URLs.
If it’s an outbound link, we’ll cancel the click event and initiate Analytics event tracking. Upgrade my links by putting my name in a custom domain and sharing with friends, family and on social media.
In some cases, the political or cultural aspects of the country in charge of the top-level domain may become an issue for users and owners,[4] but this is not usually the case. Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date and the Campaign ID. Before you send your campaign, make a note of these unique IDs so you'll know which Google Analytics title goes with which combination of your campaign. That’s why optimizing your conversion rate — the percentage of page visitors who hit “buy” — is so critical. Update your public profile settings will show up if you don't have a public profile. After learning this bitter lesson, SEO became careful in selecting and placing links to their websites. URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability.