Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing.
Example for event tracking using the newer API:
This example assumes that you are using the analytics.js tracking code. You can also get a visual glimpse of your engagement for a different perspective. 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. It is highly recommended to enable if you are using Google Analytics on your site. If you set up tracking this way, you won't be able to see the Google Analytics statistics in MailChimp.
Over a quintillion, which would mean no user would have to worry about hitting that limit for over 2700 years at the same rate of one photo every minute. Link shortening hides the final destination, so of course spammers have latched onto link shortening like a leech. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes.
Set the Media Source Name: Either add the name of the media source manually in the box or click one of the tabs (e.g. “Email”). Some URL shortening service providers have found themselves on spam blacklists, because of the use of their redirect services by sites trying to bypass those very same blacklists. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. It’s very simple interface will allow you create custom URLs so that it’s not just a random mix of letters and numbers if you want. bit.ly/0a0b0c0 TinyURL: Another one of the first, if not the first URL shorteners for Twitter. Send your invited users through the trackers and we’ll create a segment for “invited users”. For example, if someone was on the /about/ page, and clicked on an email address, then Google Analytics will record /about/. Click Macro Redirect You can specify a custom click macro by first enabling the offer tracking setting, and then passing in a URL using the following parameter: redirect For this parameter, you can include either the {redirect} or {eredirect} macro to track your clicks in another tracking system. If you're driving internal pay-per-click traffic and want to pass the cost per click through the tracking link, you can use the following parameter: payout To enable this feature, go to Company > Customize Application > Settings > Tracking. Allow it, and this will create an ~/.oacurl.properties file containing the OAuth access token and secret. Go to my.sailthru.com/pages and click a link to a hosted page.