Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. When you check the box to enable tracking, we'll show the campaign title as it will appear in your Google Analytics account after the campaign is sent. You can also view a world map where your last 50 clicks came from. But as Dave Winer articulated, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a shortener ourselves, and here we are. 🙂 People are already using it.
There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff. When a user clicks on a link that is being listened to, Google Tag Manager fires off a gtm.linkClick event. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first.
This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es". Or maybe you’re using UTM tracking tags that make your link look ugly.
Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button. You are also able to use the same tools such as bookmarklets and third-party apps using their API with your custom domain name. By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do.
Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. In order to get your domain short enough to be effective as a URL shortener, you may want to consider these tips: Removing vowels: This is an effective way to shortener your organization's name and still making it easy to understand. If these names are duplicated it can affect your attribution data's integrity as installs from your owned media are attributed to integrated partners. All links will automatically be rewritten when they are included in your emails, wrapped in a unique tracking URL that uses the Link Domain you have set on your Settings Page. To activate link tracking for a given template or campaign, within its settings, simply ensure that the Link Tracking option is set to Yes. We recommend turning on link tracking; if link tracking is disabled, the attribution described above will not function. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. Apply the tracking pixel to “This Event” or “All Events”. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. Link shortening adds another of redirection to an “already creaky system“, according to Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service.