You’ll notice 71 tickets were sold from our Facebook event, the Eventbrite-generated links that track activity from Facebook’s newsfeed (“efbnen”, “ebfblike” and “efbnreg”) resulted in 882 views and 36 tickets sold, and those were the result of attendees sharing the event with their networks. But the details of how to do this are well out of the scope of this article.
There are other methods of redirecting, but a 301 is the best choice if you are concerned about SEO. For those who read their emails in a browser (like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc.), they would still need to have HTML turned on for it to work, and even then, the email client may restrict whether any scripts embedded in the email can execute.
As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. The link tracking services are exposed by the IShellLink and IOleLink interfaces. Then, use the tracking link in your ads and promotions.
Another consideration is that some countries also restrict what content can be used their TLDs, so if you intend in shortening content that might be in violation of these laws, you'll need to find another TLD. But now I have the option to make special mistake-proof short links for print purposes. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly. Tracking Visits from Emails Tracking visitors that come from emails is simple enough if you use campaign tracking for each link. 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.
Before you send your campaign, make a note of these unique IDs so you'll know which Google Analytics title goes with which combination of your campaign. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry.
As all your Bitly created URLs are saved to your account, you can actually monitor the traffic those URLs are getting. 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.
You can use your own short URLs to point to different pages on your site.
When choosing a link shortener I take into account weather it provides opportunity to create branded shortlinks, change the target URL, how detailed and useful analytics are available, does it notify me if the link is broken. When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.