Redirecting Time (Speed) Google shortener is much faster than the bitly. Transnational law[edit] Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. Firing Rules: Set to All Pages You want Tag Manager to listen for all link clicks on all pages – so just check the preconfigured firing rule for “All pages”. So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful.
Examples: Netflix at one time used movi.es and BarkBox, which supplies dog treat gift packages, use the URL shortener ruv.me. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. It not only helps you learn about your visitors and popular content, but you can also use it to develop strategies to further optimize your WordPress blog.
Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. There are a lot of other link shorteners, many being novelty systems (like a link shortener that doesn’t really shorten but turns your URL into a Dickens quote, or one that makes your link look shady and nefarious, or one that churns out a hipster-phrased link) or ways to earn money for yourself or for charities through ads that appear before the user gets to the destination URL. Like open tracking, it can help measure subscriber engagement.
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. That helps you track to see who follows links that originate with you, which means you can track your viral marketing impact - or just give yourself an ego boost. There are no contracts or hidden fees - cancel any time. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. White labeling lets me present a positive picture of our company as clients see our agency logo when they login to create URLs.
Click the “Shorten” or “Tiny!” button to shrink the size of the URL. If done properly, you should have in the above box. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. In this case, this is what I used: Category: Email Link Click – I manually named this, so it’s easy for me to see that this category includes any link on an email address. Export your data to Excel, text, PDF or XML for paid accounts. You just need the Tracking ID that starts with "UA-." If you’ve transferred your property and didn’t set up a new one, you can find your Tracking ID in your Google Analytics Account under Admin > Tracking Info > Tracking Code. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Furthermore, this URL shortener also has an option which you can choose to log the statistics of your URLs. Other Helpful Macros If you have sites that you frequently link out to or have partnerships with, you might want to roll up the click events by domain name. Upload the certificate and its corresponding key.