If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. On Bitly, click the “Info Page +” link to view statistics. Services that don’t do this can end up being blacklisted on major websites which won’t allow links from such services to be displayed. This app quickly sees which of your links are more efficient in driving incoming traffic to your site.
Every web page or resource is specified by a unique URL, which means the internet consists of billions of URLs. However, Google Analytics can also provide you information about what users do when they come on your website, which banners or links they click the most, what product placements are working better on your website, which social media campaigns are bringing you more traffic, etc. Don’t fall for one of those “build your Twitter follower count fast” programs. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 3 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thanks. That limits your ability to do roll-up and drill-down reporting. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data.
I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. When a visitor clicks on your tracking link, LinkTrackr places a cookie on the user’s computer, as well as generate a unique Click Tracking ID or CTID.
Add retargeting pixels to short links for tracking interest in specific products and growing a list of qualified customers.URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 31 Dec 2012 More Google Chrome temporarily blocks for malware risk Thanks. An Alternative To Link Shorteners Perhaps you’d like to avoid using a link shortening service. Click tracking in Sailthru is done through your link subdomain. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately.
Tracking Visits from Emails Tracking visitors that come from emails is simple enough if you use campaign tracking for each link. Well in this article, we will show you how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics. Buffer: If you currently use Buffer or manage your social media channels this is a great platform. Members can only have one custom public profile URL at a time. Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. Once you are sure that your WordPress site does not have Google Analytics code, go to Settings » Google Analytics. You can easily manage links and view click statistics.