Before You Start Click tracking is enabled in all MailChimp campaigns by default, and is required in all free accounts and new paid accounts. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. 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. If you have a collection of URLs that you would like to share, you can create what’s called a “bundled short URL”. In general, don't remove vowels at the beginning of words, though.
Once you've found a domain you like, you'll need to register it. Additionally, pageview calculations are unaffected by user activity tracked using the Event Tracking method. Tracking Visits from Emails Tracking visitors that come from emails is simple enough if you use campaign tracking for each link. You can use up to one source parameter and five sub ID parameters, each of which appear in your stats and conversion reports. URL shorteners typically work by redirecting users using a special server response commonly referred to as a "301." This tells the browser that the resource at your short URL has been permenantly moved to the full URL's location.
More » Ow.ly Another popular alternative, Ow.ly is a link shortener from the leading social media application known as HootSuite. It's also worth considering leaving the most recognizable part of your name spelled out. HootSuite ow.ly statistics shows different clicks on links shared through the management system. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics.[7] Bitly Enterprise also has advanced analytics features and uses Bitly data to provide advanced social insight tools for companies and brands. Total clicks Total number of times any tracked link was clicked. Link Tracking when Forcing HTTPS with HSTS If your company is considering implementing HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for your site to ensure visitors may only connect using the more-secure HTTPS, there can be implications for your users’ experience with Sailthru-tracked links if you enable HSTS for all subdomains via the optional includeSubDomains directive.
Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co. They are always trying to break into websites and cause irreparable damage to them. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. Most URL shortening services offer basic analytic data that tracks the total number of clicks, the time of the click and the country or territory location of the person who clicked the link. Public API tny.im has a public API that allows developers to integrate this service with their websites and applications. 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). 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. 4Priority rules for Campaign Structure Parameters Data entered into parameters is used in as fully as possible, but priority is given to a consistent and logical tracker structure. 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. I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions. A short link which expires, or can be terminated, has some security advantages. They enable campaigns with limited text space, such as SMS campaigns. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. This example assumes that you are using the analytics.js tracking code. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service.