Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 22 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 22, 2011 Thanks. You can also get a visual glimpse of your engagement for a different perspective. Under Tracking, click the Google Analytics link tracking box. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks.
Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. Can generate transcribable short links in printed brochures for publicity events. Click the gear wheel to go to Admin in your Google Analytics Dashboard. However, not all internet users are pleased to use Bitly.
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. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks). Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey.
If you set Use Google Analytics? to “Yes”, then all links will add special utm parameters that will allow you to identify traffic coming from emails in Google Analytics. To enable external link tracking, select Track External. (Optional) To specify the external links to track, in the External Filters box type all or part of the URL of the link target.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 18 May 2011 More Revision 357: Removed: piurl.com, tr.im, kl.am; Added: min.ms, mrte.ch, v.gd; Thanks. Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. STEP 3: Simple Tag Testing After you’ve saved your new tag, go ahead and select Preview, and then Debug: Then, open up your website to a page you’d like to test. This may sometimes be done using short, CAPTCHA-protected URLs, but this is not common.[3] Makers of URL shorteners usually register domain names with less popular or esoteric Top-level domains in order to achieve a short URL and a catchy name, often using domain hacks.