Nesbitt, Scott (7 February 2010). "Shorter Is Sweeter: A Look at URL Shorteners".Business Marketing Social Media Marketing How to Shorten URLs on Twitter How to Shorten URLs on Twitter Even if you are marketing on Twitter, not everything you tweet is going to point to a blog, let alone your blog. WordPress provides several permalink structure options. These “pretty” permalink options have gotten some flak in the past for being a drag on your WordPress installation, but newer versions (version 3. Choosing A Link Shortener There are no shortage of link shorteners out there. It gives us profound insights about the media battle through social sites. One good way to do this is to use Domai.nr, which links directly to registrars for many domain extensions.
Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable. Just save the tag and then test before publishing. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks). Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks.
We recommend using {eredirect} if your click macro URL contains a query string. If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Understand who my readers are, which books are getting clicks and purchases and which marketing channel is working best. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. This data is useful in aggregate to determine the response to your emails, including attributing purchases to sends, and also at the individual level to determine a user’s engagement and interaction with Lifecycle Optimizer rules and Audience Builder filters. This app quickly sees which of your links are more efficient in driving incoming traffic to your site.
This restriction is imposed by optimisation algorithms designed to create reports and rapidly fill the dashboard. Label: {{element url}} – Also a macro, this Element URL macro records the specific link that was clicked on. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 29 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 29, 2011 Thanks. Does your website code allow the following external variables? utm_source= utm_campaign= utm_medium= For the sake of page security, a link is designed to fail if a query value outside of what is expected is fed in to a page. For those who read their emails in a browser (like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc.), they would still need to have HTML turned on for it to work, and even then, the email client may restrict whether any scripts embedded in the email can execute. You should see a new tag pop up telling you that it tracked the email link click event: Once you’ve confirmed the tag works, the next step is to save a new version and publish everything. Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet. Is there more than one type of Google Analytics tracking on your links? If you combine MailChimp's Google Analytics tracking with custom UTM tracking, this could skew results in reports. If no value is provided for ad_id on a click, then conversions in that click session are rejected with the "No Transaction ID provided" error.