Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. The traffic that you drive to a URL will primarily be assigned to that URL, and the data in parameters will be added as long as they don’t conflict. It is where a link tracker tool comes in handy and will do the job that would take you forever to do. For example, "4" can be used for the "for" sound in a name.
ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand? What Link Shorteners Do (And Don’t Do) Link shorteners were originally created to address stubborn email systems that wrapped an email after 80 characters and broke any long URLs that might have been in the message. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data. If you find someone who says he or she loves social media but doesn’t have a twitter account, then that person just likes social media. Configure short link HTTP status codes for best SEO results.
Go to 'Tracking Pixels (under Analyse) on your Manage page 4. We can detect whether a link will open a page on a domain which is different to ours. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks. That in mind, if it bothers you to have public analytics on your short links, don't use goo.gl! See if you are using Classic Analytics (ga.js) or Universal Analytics (analytics.js).