Using campaign tracking, however, you will be able to analyze your email traffic in great detail. Enter data in the required fields and click 'Track Now.' This utility will display the URL, and if it is indexed by search engines and its PR value.
In this article we’ll discover how to add outbound link tracking. URL shorteners typically work by redirecting users using a special server response commonly referred to as a "301." This tells the browser that the resource at your short URL has been permenantly moved to the full URL's location. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first.
I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. From here you can modify both your Campaign Structure and add a selection of additional parameters (including label, deeplink, redirect and fallback). To turn click tracking on or off in a regular email campaign, follow these steps.
Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it. You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar.
Parts of a URL Note that www. is only a subdomain. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves.