When it comes to online advertising and marketing, link tracking is king. White labeling lets me present a positive picture of our company as clients see our agency logo when they login to create URLs. 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. What’s really great is you don’t have to add any of your own custom javascript. 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. This tool increases your website’s virality and create a community of loyal customers who trust you and purchase from your website time after time.You probably want to use event tracking - this is a simple Javascript function to can fire from the click event on your links.
Note: Not all website UTM parameters work properly with Google Analytics. Bit.ly, which is what we integrate with in CoSchedule, uses a 301 redirect.
Click Download to export and save this list of contacts, or click each contact to view their activity for this campaign. The call details that appear in DigitalPulse Debugger are similar to the following example: Ad-Hoc Link Tracking Ad-hoc link tracking enables content authors to configure link tracking for a component. Without tracking those metrics, how do you know which method is working the best?
This is compatible with most web browsers and platforms as long as your bookmarks or favorites allow javascript. Whenever you paste a link into Buffer to be scheduled to post at a later time, it automatically shortens the link for you. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. Link farms were created and sold by shysters, and website owners fell for these deals and bought these links.
Finally, Event Tracking employs an object-oriented model that you can use to collect and classify different types of interaction with your web page objects. For example: Bitly is one of the most popular link shortening services, and the one we prefer to use with CoSchedule. You can use up to one source parameter and five sub ID parameters, each of which appear in your stats and conversion reports. In addition to using bit.ly as a tool integrated into third-party tools you can also use it directly at the bit.ly website. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 12 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 12, 2011 Thanks. 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. To enable outbound link tracking, you need to add a little javascript to your website, and add a little code with each outgoing link that you want to track.