There are a lot of organisations which provides the URL shortening services present online. This will bring up: A) All linking root domains that are pointing to your PDF B) The page they are linking from C) The domain authority of their site. The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people. Use short links with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons for asset tracking and proximity marketing. With the Adjust fallback_click, you now get the best of both worlds.
Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics. Let us know what you think of Bitly.com and other similar sites.
To enable outbound link tracking, you need to add a little javascript to your website, and add a little code with each outgoing link that you want to track. Check out Mozilla’s Developer Network documentation on textContent to understand some of the differences. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. 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.
At that time, Google will completely disable the URL shortener and all associated data will be lost. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey.
Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. When the link tracking information is lost, no harm is done to the link source file itself, it is simply not trackable by the distributed link tracking services. Once you’ve pressed this, you’ll be brought to the URL Forwarding page. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry. Testing Tracking Links To test if your offer is properly directing, click on the test link on the offer's Tracking page. Owned Media email and SMS campaigns, web site banners and landing pages, viral posts on social media or even QR codes on physical posters. Authorizing requests and identifying your application Every request your application sends to the Google URL Shortener API needs to identify your application to Google. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. How are you tracking calls generated via PPC & SEO? Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums.