A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. This is a great solution if your landing page is an actual URL your contacts will be visiting.
Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. We recommend using {eredirect} if your click macro URL contains a query string.
If you have a link domain enabled, wait to enable HSTS until after you have uploaded this certificate for your link domain. Affiliate Marketing with Your Link Tracker Our link tracker software works perfectly for affiliates too! You can add parameters that help track certain campaigns or store values from an affiliate's tracking system. Some countries place restrictions on who can register domains with its country TLD — though this is becoming less and less common as countries realize the revenue opportunities from selling domains worldwide. Edit short URLs or QR codes to fix broken pages any time I need it. Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan.
Assign Parameters: Here is where you assign the tag’s Category, Action, and Label. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. Configure the mapping according to the following table: Configure external link tracking In your framework, expand the Link tracking Configuration area. Complete control over which campaigns our clients can see in their accounts. This means you couldn't register, for example, domain.uk.
This tool is especially useful if you want to detect click-fraud, see real-time click stats, and measure social media traffic. Creating the Link Click Listener The Link Click Listener tag allows you to capture user click events on all or specific targeted links. Link shortening hides the final destination, so of course spammers have latched onto link shortening like a leech. To enable outbound link tracking, you need to add a little javascript to your website, and add a little code with each outgoing link that you want to track. Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option. Shortcomings[edit] Short URLs often circumvent the intended use of top-level domains for indicating the country of origin; domain registration in many countries requires proof of physical presence within that country, although a redirected URL has no such guarantee. They enable campaigns with limited text space, such as SMS campaigns.