Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period. Within this tab, you can also search locations, referral tweets, and popular tweets shared. A few well-known websites have set up their own URL shortening services for their own use – for example, Twitter with t.co, and Google with goo.gl.
Upgrade to a premium account for more advanced features. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue. Aside from the custom domains that you can use with the premium option, you can also view campaign comparison charts, download the data as an excel file, filter clicks data, and much more. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. Some link shorteners end up on domain block lists because of heavy spammer use.
Then when the page loads, it can load the Javascript and track the information in Google Analytics as expected. Also, you can choose the redirect type of your link, depending on whether you plan on changing your destination URL in the future. However, if you do this then you'll miss out on transaction data being sent to Google Analytics.
When we shorten a link, it appears like so: Our URLs are shortened and we can still use the tracking features in Bit.ly, but instead of our readers seeing Bit.ly in the shortened links, they see our custom domain. In addition to easy link shortening, you can use the service with your own domain, customize the characters at the end of your links, get real-time statistics and even see which countries your clicks are coming from. It gives you yet another level of analytics that you can use to base your decisions on. This is helpful for tracking: File Downloads Video Engagement External Link Clicks Internal Link Clicks Email Link Clicks Additionally, when setting up event tracking you will be able to add categories, actions, labels to see specific link information or high-level link click information. After that, you can skip ahead to the section describing whichever action you would like to perform.
With this level of visual reporting you can view a complete account overview of all your statistics, or drill down into each individual link to see when it got the most clicks, and where your traffic is coming from. A short link which expires, or can be terminated, has some security advantages. Sridhar, Founder at 2ONE Answered 74w ago I have seen many short URL service but none provides detailed reporting like . Custom domain URL shorteners for personal or professional link branding and tracking. You can modify these in the ga call if necessary (lines 24 to 26). If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question. The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people. This total includes clicks on other occurrences of this link on this module. You should see the activity in the Analytics Real-Time > Events panel.