Tracking ID You can either manually type your unique Google Analytics ID into this field (ex: UA-########-1) or use a convenient macro that plugs this in for you. Please see Google’s help page on Custom Campaigns for more information. 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. Paste the link into a text file, so you can view the entire link, and find the value that follows c= at the end of the link address. While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business.
I mean, you won’t be redirected to an ads page like, for instance, Adf.ly. Hootsuite users will see their links shortened, but non-Hootsuite users can also use the shortener. Link Tracking Limitations The distributed link tracking services are available only on the NTFS file system, and are only available for link sources on NTFS 3. 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. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration.
Build trust & increase click rate: people tend to click on the links that they trust rather than unknown URLs (ie. bit.ly/buSzh might be a spam link). Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted.
Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. In this case, each character in the sequence will be 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, a, b, c, ..., y, z. Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that includes both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "CLICKID" and "UNIQUEVALUE" placeholder values. You must have a Google Analytics account to complete this process. To sign up, visit analytics.google.com. But as Dave Winer articulated, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a shortener ourselves, and here we are. 🙂 People are already using it. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration.
However, we don’t want to exclude any href that starts with 2 slashes because those are usually fully qualified absolute URLs that are trying to be protocol relative (typically sites that have both HTTP and HTTPS experiences). These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. Other Features If you hang out in Bitly.com long enough, you’ll discover several other features for further customizing your links and stats page. Add Tracking to Your A/B Testing Campaign To add Google Analytics tracking to your A/B Testing Campaign in MailChimp, follow these steps. Open the Universal Links settings page in My Sailthru under Setup > Universal Links. Label: {{element url}} – Also a macro, this Element URL macro records the specific link that was clicked on. This data is useful in aggregate to determine the response to your emails, including attributing purchases to sends, and also at the individual level to determine a user’s engagement and interaction with Lifecycle Optimizer rules and Audience Builder filters.