Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it? I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. This has been risky in the past because errors can result whenever users manually enter links. There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff.
Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links.
Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. 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.
To ensure proper tracking, use direct links to pages where Google Analytics code is embedded. You can also create a tracking domain to “gather metrics for all users that are shortening links to your site”. Links to files on removable media are not maintained. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. In this article, you’ll learn how to add Google Analytics tracking to your email campaigns, archives, and list pages. If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there.
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