Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Google moves could bring fast Web apps closer - Thanks. Short.cm also provides an API for developers and Google Chrome extension for better experience. If you’re not tracking your links, you’re probably leaving tons of money on the table, spending more than you can afford, and struggling to keep up with dozens of online marketing campaigns. Check Enable OneLink to convert the custom tracking link to OneLink, while retaining all the added parameters to the link.
Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call. Hanselman was redirected through a convoluted path that used link shortening for analytics and tracking, and found the end result frustrating from a user standpoint. Always use the entire tracker token as displayed in your Adjust Campaign Wizard. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser.
This means your URLs for blog posts will be instead of or something along those lines. Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable.
Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. Adding tracking directly to your site If you have added the Analytics tracking code directly to your site, you can copy and paste the script below into your own pages to set up Event tracking for outbound links. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. An easier way to get to this website will be to copy/paste smallseotools.com/link-tracker in your search browser.
Another simple one, you just paste it in and go. goo.gl/0a0b0c0 Then there are the ones that people hook up to autofeed into their Twitter accounts, and most of those come with their own shorteners. Let us know what you think of Bitly.com and other similar sites. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. See the company's blog to learn more about the changes that are taking place. More » TinyURL.com TinyURL used to be one of the top shortening choice in the past, and people still use it a lot today, however it does include a couple more characters compared to others like Bit.ly and Goo.gl. This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. For example, if your source is "newsletter", the medium should not be "email newsletter". See time spent on attachments Find out exactly how long email recipients are spending on your presentation slides and any other PDF or PPT file you send. URLs that are shortened with the bitly service use the bit.ly domain or any other generic domain that the service offers.[citation needed]Information about any short bitly URL is available at (that is, the URL with a plus sign appended), for example .[8] This allows users to see and check the long URL before visiting it. The feedback you provide will help us show you more relevant content in the future. When a request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is searched for an associated URL. One of the more common problems is skewing content report data. With a Professional account, you can use any of our alternative domain names for your tracking links. You can also create a tracking domain to “gather metrics for all users that are shortening links to your site”. The distributed link tracking service maintains file links for the following situations that occur within a domain: The link source file is moved from one NTFS file system volume to another within the same domain. Google's URL builder lets you manually add custom analytics parameters to a website URL.