If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 Jun 2011 More Revision 362: * Updated toolbarbutton styles Thanks. You can use Analytics Events to track clicks on links that take users to a website other than your own. Just a Few of the Available Sites I won’t claim to be familiar with all the possible URL shortening sites you could use.
Static URLs only contain dots, slashes, dashes or underscores. eg: and are considered clean or user-friendly URLs because they are more human readable and descriptive than dynamic URLs. 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. All of our premium accounts can make an unlimited number of links that won't expire. The volume that holds the link source file is moved to another computer within the same domain.
Use insights from tracking reports to understand who my customers are, spot product micro trends and ratchet up results on the next campaign. This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page. Any additional parameters like sub IDs or source values that have been added in this panel update the creative ad tag as well.
While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business. Note: If you will implement HSTS on your primary domain only, allowing your link domain to remain accessible via HTTP, the following actions are not needed. Macro Name: element text Macro Type: Custom JavaScript Custom Javascript: The .textContent property is built into most browsers which is nice, but you can always adapt the macro to use innerHTML or innerText depending on your needs. Tag Type: Select either “Universal Analytics” or “Classic Analytics”, depending on whichever you are using.
Yet, without a tracker, you’re unable to identify users that have visited your webpage organically. We sometimes experience products selling out suddenly in the middle of a large campaign. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page. Entering unique values into aff_sub or source parameters is a common cause of sluggish reporting. DyingLinks gives you control over how long you want your shortened link to be available, along with some other control and privacy features. Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now. This is the title that will show in your Google Analytics account after the automation is started. Given the choice between spending time and money to find a different home, or just giving up, the latter won out.[22] Google's url-shortener discussion group has frequently included messages from frustrated users reporting that specific shortened URLs have been disabled after they were reported as spam.[23] A study in May 2012 showed that 61% of URL shorteners had shut down (614 of 1002).[24] The most common cause cited was abuse by spammers. For those instructions, click Help under the Enter domain name field.You get a whopping 280 tiny Twitter characters to say what you want to say in a tweet. Please check with your media partners about what data is available - and if you have any questions on how to capture such data, feel free to ping support@adjust.com. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface.