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. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. Its popularity influenced the creation of at least 100 similar websites,[9] although most are simply domain alternatives. All of these things should be clearly stipulated for tags you will be setting up: There are a variety of approaches you can take to naming tags, categories, labels, firing rules, and more. Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails!
Outbound links are the links which take visitors from your website to some other site on the web. Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. Buffer: If you currently use Buffer or manage your social media channels this is a great platform.
This method can create some clever domains and also have the advantage of using the domain extension itself as part of the word or words you're trying to convey. You can also view a world map where your last 50 clicks came from. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally powerful server-side analytics engine, and unlike the latter, does not require any access to the server. When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123.
Click this number in your report to open a list of subscribers who clicked. If you set Use Google Analytics? to “Yes”, then all links will add special utm parameters that will allow you to identify traffic coming from emails in Google Analytics. A summary of this traffic is found in your Google Analytics reporting under Traffic Sources. If your account has multiple link domains, the link domain used to rewrite links is dynamically chosen per-link, based on the destination of the link. 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).
In order to form the key, a hash function can be made, or a random number generated so that key sequence is not predictable. You get valuable tracking information including when the link was clicked, where it came from, the search keywords used, the IP address of the visitor and more. You can turn click tracking on and off in paid accounts after you've sent a few campaigns without generating any compliance issues. Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. Click the input box under “Update Status” and paste the copied short URL into the box. You can also find out how many clicks your particular bit.ly link got compared to the total clicks on the long link. Short.cm has integration with many statistics services (like google analytics and mixpanel) through segment.io API.