But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways.
If you leave a middle-rank parameter empty, we still use the data in your lower-level parameters. As an example, their tracking system could have a macro for ad placement that you use to replace "AFF_SUB", and another macro for traffic source that you use to replace "SOURCE".
Login to your Universal Google Analytics account and check to see that there are events recorded in the “Events”section of Google Analytics. Ecommerce data can take up to 24 hours to show in Google Analytics. You might be listing them all on your site's main page and linking them to the relevant content page.
More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. It gives you yet another level of analytics that you can use to base your decisions on. Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way. Most URL shortening services offer basic analytic data that tracks the total number of clicks, the time of the click and the country or territory location of the person who clicked the link. If a member uses a URL and then changes it, that URL will be unavailable for use by other members for six months.
Show our company logo to guest users when they login to create URLs. Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener. You can easily manage links and view click statistics. Downloadable Reports With a Professional account, you can download your data any time for offline use. WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world. It depends on the amount of point of interest you need to track.