From there, you can click Export as CSV to download a list of contacts for each link result. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 12 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 12, 2011 Thanks.
Browse our list for inspiration: You'll likely get some great ideas just look at what others have done! Take a look at your social media feeds and you’ll see that link shortening has really caught on as a practice. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics?
There is no equal distribution of traffic with this setting, and traffic to specific pages varies. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Those groups can often be subdivided further to show you exactly which publishers, affiliates, or keywords work best. Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter.
For example, if you are passing a sub ID on click, you can append the parameter directly to the end of the encrypted URL: When generating tiny URLs, it may take several minutes for the shortened URL to become active. We need to be careful and ensure tracking never stops user navigation even on failure.
2. They hide the parameters and business logic of your ads, that is otherwise exposed to users. 3. It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link. A few well-known websites have set up their own URL shortening services for their own use – for example, Twitter with t.co, and Google with goo.gl. You can also view a world map where your last 50 clicks came from. Another simple one, you just paste it in and go. goo.gl/0a0b0c0 Then there are the ones that people hook up to autofeed into their Twitter accounts, and most of those come with their own shorteners. So if your link is as long as a giraffes neck, coupled with the rest of the tweet, you will definitely find yourself truncating the text and even break the whole thing.