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Downloadable Reports With a Professional account, you can download your data any time for offline use. Note: Not all website UTM parameters work properly with Google Analytics. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. If you set up tracking this way, you won't be able to see the Google Analytics statistics in MailChimp.
But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. A link shortening service is a middleman, serving up a link that sits between your user and the end result. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier. To store unique session information—like click IDs or user hashes—use the affiliate click ID or unique value parameters instead. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener.
URL Shortener If you’ve never used an URL shortener, Bitly makes it easy, even without you having to register on its site. The link tracking services are exposed by the IShellLink and IOleLink interfaces. 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.
Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. If you're driving internal pay-per-click traffic and want to pass the cost per click through the tracking link, you can use the following parameter: payout To enable this feature, go to Company > Customize Application > Settings > Tracking. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. If you already have Google Analytics code inserted in to your WordPress blog, remove that code. To quote John Wanamaker, the father of modern advertising: So which half of your advertising is a waste of money? In general, don't remove vowels at the beginning of words, though. Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name.