Some countries place restrictions on who can register domains with its country TLD — though this is becoming less and less common as countries realize the revenue opportunities from selling domains worldwide. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. 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. Furthermore, this URL shortener also has an option which you can choose to log the statistics of your URLs.
However, depending on the ad environment, and the pop-up option selected, your user could be left unintentionally stranded. In some cases, the political or cultural aspects of the country in charge of the top-level domain may become an issue for users and owners,[4] but this is not usually the case. Top links clicked The URLs that were clicked the most in your campaign. View Click Results on the Links Page The Links page tells you how each URL performed in the campaign. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.Below are some frequently asked questions about t.co, Twitter's link-shortening service. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 359: + Added feature: include title when posting to Twitter/StatusNet Thanks.
To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. It's also worth considering leaving the most recognizable part of your name spelled out. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them.
Tip: There are also many browser add-ons that you can utilize to make copying long addresses easier. You can use your own short URLs to point to different pages on your site. You might be listing them all on your site's main page and linking them to the relevant content page.
Copying a link or image within a page To copy the address to a link or image within a web page, right-click the link or image and select Copy link address or Copy image from the drop-down menu that appears. Hootsuite users will see their links shortened, but non-Hootsuite users can also use the shortener. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. To turn click tracking on or off in a regular email campaign, follow these steps. 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. Owned Media email and SMS campaigns, web site banners and landing pages, viral posts on social media or even QR codes on physical posters. The above code is for use with the current "asynchronous" Google Analytics tracking code; if you use an older version of the code, see Google Analytics Help for the appropriate header code.Contents Sailthru can track the clicks of links in your emails, and attribute those clicks back to the unique customer. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener. You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. Tracker ID The tracker ID is the six-character code after the domain, but before the query string. Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent * using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it. */ var trackOutboundLink = function(url) { ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, { 'transport': 'beacon', 'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;} }); } You'll also need to add (or modify) the onclick attribute to your links.