I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them. Before you send your campaign, make a note of these unique IDs so you'll know which Google Analytics title goes with which combination of your campaign. Add &projection=FULL to the API URL, like this: curl '' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "", "status": "OK", "created": "2009-12-13T07:22:55.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 11 May 2011 More Statistics for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Thanks. In addition to creating short URL versions in the sidebar, you can get personalized stats about your Bitly links, create Tweets right from within the sidebar, and see who is linking to your URL on Twitter, FriendFeed and blog comments. You can create custom tracking links offline and use them directly without visiting the AppsFlyer's dashboard.
To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values.
There’s no default macro that allows you to get the anchor text of the link, so we’ll create a custom Javascript macro to easily do this. A collaborative and customizable editorial calendar. You can use it for one simple link and shorten as usual, or you can shorten a group of links into one shortened link.
Take the tracker ID of the second tracker and add it to the end, separating it with an underscore. Here’s Tom Scott to explain why YouTube will probably never run out of IDs. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. 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. In this example, we’re creating tag that tracks any click on an email address. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks. You’ll see a nice overlay at the bottom that tells you what Google Tag Manager is currently “hearing”: Go ahead and click on an email address (you may want to open the link in a new window). Instead, think of source as a label identifying where the email came from or the kind of email it is.