Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue. Google Analytics won't track redirects that don't contain embedded Google Analytics code. Technically, Google Analytics code could be placed into the HTML of an email to try to track that data. You're probably using Google for other things, so why not keep all your data where you can find it and use your existing Google Account? If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question.
In this case, no further subtrackers will be created for that group, and you will be notified immediately. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites. This method is safe and would definitely save you a lot of stress. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Sharing toolbar Make your short links easy to share by displaying a toolbar on them.
Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002. This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress. Though people haven’t detailed the reason they are the best for link tracking service, let me give you some pointers which should help you short-list a good link tracking service. If your account has multiple link domains, the link domain used to rewrite links is dynamically chosen per-link, based on the destination of the link.
The information about moves cannot increase beyond a specific size, and it is automatically removed if it becomes unnecessary. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. See full details on how to use the Store and Pre-install Tracker Tool here.Google Analytics provides an overwhelming quantity of information.
This ability is installed on the browser via the TinyURL website and requires the use of cookies.[31] A destination preview may also be obtained by prefixing the word "preview" to the TinyURL URL; for example, the destination of is revealed by entering . Clicked Number of recipients who clicked any tracked link. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL. You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc. After you click on “Edit” you can change your slug to match whatever keywords (2-5 words are best) you are focusing on in the post. Otherwise, users may see a security warning in their browser when visiting your emailed links. That would help you determine whether the announcement emails are worthwhile or perhaps whether the regular emails need to be reformatted. Last clicked The most recent date and time someone clicked a tracked link in your campaign. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web. WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com. Click on settings for the app that you wish to create a new tracking URL. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. We can detect whether a link will open a page on a domain which is different to ours.