For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es". OneLink™ enables using a single link to diagnose and redirect users to different locations based on their devices' type. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. With our unique CTID, you are much less dependent on cookies, and have more reliable data. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums.
Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account. You’ll play a “prove you’re human” game before your shortened link is produced.
AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener. This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. It's simply to use: When you're on a page you want to create a shortened link for, just click the button in your toolbar or set up a keyboard shortcut. (Actually, you can set up a ton of shortcuts if you want, available in the extension's options, but a simple "Copy url" shortcut is the most obviously useful—maybe Ctrl+Shift+C.) The shortened URL will be automatically copied to your clipboard, and you still get all the nice stats tracking built into the goo.gl web site.
URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability. From Google Event Tracking Guide Event Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system. At that time, Google will completely disable the URL shortener and all associated data will be lost. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 Jun 2011 More Revision 362: * Updated toolbarbutton styles Thanks.
Set up conversion tracking in Google Analytics to track contacts from clicks to purchases on your website. Copy and paste the URL you create into your web browser's address bar, then press enter. Click the list's drop-down menu and choose Settings. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. Just save the tag and then test before publishing. We’ll use the GA Event tracking feature to capture all the information. In this example, we’re creating tag that tracks any click on an email address. Your Network-X Installs are further grouped by each Network-X campaign you have set up in your dashboard, and further by each adgroup. Doing so generates a tracking link unique to that publisher and offer: What is generated looks something like this: Each part of the affiliate tracking link helps our ad server determine what to do with the traffic when a user follows the link: demo.go2cloud.org - This is the tracking domain of your network, using the provided go2cloud.org domain. aff_c - This part after the domain tells the ad server that this user is clicking through, as opposed to a conversion or impression. offer_id=1001 - In HasOffers, each offer is given an ID number, which is used to connect the click session to the rest of an offer's information. aff_id=2002 - The affiliate ID tells HasOffers which publisher receives credit for the click and the conversion (if the user converts). Note: As of March 30, 2018, Google's URL shortener is only available to active users, and the data generated by those shortened URLs will only be available until March 2019.