But as Dave Winer articulated, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a shortener ourselves, and here we are. 🙂 People are already using it. Without tracking those metrics, how do you know which method is working the best? Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. Understanding which external links are most often clicked on your website will help you understand what kind of information users are looking for.
For example: Services Brochure In the above URL we’ve added the parameter “?pdf=Services-Brochure” to the end of the PDF URL link. Creative Files When creative files have been added to an offer, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional item labeled Creative. When you select a creative file from the dropdown menu, your tracking link is appended with the following parameter: file_id This parameter also appears in the standalone tracking link to track the performance of the creative in the stats reports: Deep Links If you have the custom deep link feature enabled for an offer, you can set a custom redirect URL to use instead of using one of the existing landing page URLs set in the offer already. You might be listing them all on your site's main page and linking them to the relevant content page. My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly. Use remarketing links to repeatedly get my brands in front of interested eyeballs.
You can access detailed campaign click stats from the report Overview, the Click Performance, and the Clicked pages in the campaign report. Another simple one, you just paste it in and go. goo.gl/0a0b0c0 Then there are the ones that people hook up to autofeed into their Twitter accounts, and most of those come with their own shorteners. While this solution might not compete with the extremely short URLs that link shortening services can provide (and without the equivalent analytics packages), it would avoid the link shortening middleman and let your user know at a glance where your link will take them. — Is link shortening for you? Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business.
So if you have a page at , you can use the URL and going to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website. In the “Auto-Append Link Parameters” field write the new or current parameter with its respective value, such as utm_medium=MorningEmail You can turn on this setting independent of the Link Tracking setting. Charts and graphs like this come with every single Linktrack account - including the free ones. Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). Alternatively, users may view the properties of the link and copy the URL from within that menu. Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks. As an example, their tracking system could have a macro for ad placement that you use to replace "AFF_SUB", and another macro for traffic source that you use to replace "SOURCE". OneLink™ Custom tracking links are app specific, which always direct clicking users to the page of the app that is specified on the tracking link. You need to be signed in to your bit.ly account before you can enter tracking data for the link. This is it. tinyurl.com/0a0b0c0 Buffer: In order to shorten your URLs, you need to schedule your posts through Buffer who will put your posts in a queue and schedule them to go out at the times you preset. For segment A, the value will be “A”, for B, “B” and “Final” for the Final version of the AB Winner/Auto Winner test. However, if it's a direct link to a resource like a document or PDF or JPG, to track this link when using Google Analytics you may need some custom tracking methods setup on your server to track that particular link to your resource. It will track the links, but you will still need to use the 'Link Tracker' utility provided by smallseotools.com to examine the links and verify them. Assign Parameters: Here is where you assign the tag’s Category, Action, and Label. It's also worth considering leaving the most recognizable part of your name spelled out.