To track only the HTML version of your campaign, and not the plain-text version, you can create a custom tracking code using Google's resources and add it to the HTML of your campaign. Launch and use Now that you're all set up, you're ready to use your new URL shortener. Upgrade my links by putting my name in a custom domain and sharing with friends, family and on social media. Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. Your Network-X Installs are further grouped by each Network-X campaign you have set up in your dashboard, and further by each adgroup. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity.
Just make a link to or use the following code to make a URL input box: Terms of use TinyURL was created as a free service to make posting long URLs easier, and may only be used for actual URLs. Restrict our employee's account access to only the campaigns I want assigned to them. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand.
Instead, they create a “tracking link” that will act as a redirect to the actual landing page or website URL. A link shortening service is a middleman, serving up a link that sits between your user and the end result. Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse.
If you need better analytics, your best URL shortener is probably Social Media ROI with awe.sm As co-founder, I advice Shortcut The Smarter Link, which is the most versatile URL shortener. Similarly, if you assign traffic to a certain campaign but with an unknown adgroup, and later on add adgroup attributions, the traffic up until then will be shown as unknown.
For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". To use custom campaigns, you add UTM parameters to your URL which are then recorded in your custom analytics report. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first. Go to my.sailthru.com/pages and click a link to a hosted page. We can also store your Google Analytics ID to track visits to your campaign pages and hosted campaign archive, so you can see traffic to these pages in your Google Analytics account. You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 26 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 26, 2011 Thanks. When someone pastes this shorter URL in their browser, they are initially directed to the Bitly site. This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. Copying an address (URL) using a keyboard and mouse Highlight the address by moving your mouse cursor over the address bar and clicking the left mouse button once or press the F6 keyboard shortcut to get into the address bar.