Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call. See how your visitors are really using your website. You can now return to the URL shortening service’s homepage at any time to view click stats for the link you posted to your Facebook wall.
When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link. MailChimp reports provide a few different metrics for measuring click activity on a campaign report. Clickmeter can also be used as a URL-shortening tool with advanced click-tracking.
The link subdomain does not support https out of the box. Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine! Just save the tag and then test before publishing. This sounds like a lot of work if you want to track all your outgoing links. I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions. Click the input box under “Update Status” and paste the copied short URL into the box.
Why would a fashion magazine's site permit a pet training site to create a link to it? Scott Hanselman wrote a short but interesting post tracing the amount of redirection that happened on a single shortened link. Go to your domain in your Name.com account and press the “URL Forwarding” button: 2. More » Ow.ly Another popular alternative, Ow.ly is a link shortener from the leading social media application known as HootSuite. Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements.
But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. You may want to know how your announcement emails perform compared to your regular emails listing current specials. When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc. Google URL Shortener: This shortener is straight from Google and will be viewed as a Goo(dot)gl. You'll want to make sure to enter the full number (including the "UA-"). Any information in this field gets reported in the Keywords report under Traffic Sources, alongside all the search engine traffic.