It wasn’t long before link shorteners quickly became more than mere link shorteners. Add Tracking to Email Campaign Archives and Pages To add Google Analytics tracking to your email campaign archives and pages, follow these steps. For more information on each partner, check out the Special Partners Guide.
I highly recommend you check out their 14 day free trial and see if you like the interface and simplicity with which it comes with.How do you track Link Clicks with Google Analytics? This is also effective if you simply want to find out how effective your backlinks are. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 18 May 2011 More Revision 357: Removed: piurl.com, tr.im, kl.am; Added: min.ms, mrte.ch, v.gd; Thanks. Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option.
Interestingly, that same infographic suggests that posting shortened URLs later in the week will give them a “longer lifespan”, clicking many days after it was posted. The media source value is represented in the tracking link, on the bottom of the page, under the ‘pid’ parameter. Note To properly differentiate between your custom tracking link and AppsFlyer integrated partners tracking link, do not use "Facebook", "Facebook Ads", "Google", "Twitter" or "Organic" as your custom media source name (case insensitive). People have learned that shortened links can lead to any random spam page on the web. When you or Sailthru includes a link in your email to example.com/item/123, your email recipients will instead receive a link URL beginning with link.example.com and ending in a tracking code. However, this tracking code isn't compatible with the Eventbrite site. 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.
Links can usually be maintained when the link source is moved to another computer, but this form of tracking is less reliable over time. Finally, after concluding all the key differences between bitly and google shortener link, I would like to make an HONEST CONFESSION.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 19 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 19, 2011 Thanks. And getting me a web page is kind of the most important thing the web does…Every redirect is a one more point of failure, one more domain that can rot, one more server that can go down, one more layer between me and the content. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Examples of this are rickrolling, redirecting to shock sites, or to affiliate websites. See who’s ignoring you The Inbox Dashboard shows you exactly what you want to know — like which messages have been opened but didn’t get a reply. ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand?