Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier.
But as Dave Winer articulated, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a shortener ourselves, and here we are. 🙂 People are already using it. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it.
Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 21 May 2011 More Version 0. Therefore, as a Twitter marketer who needs to track link performance, you should use bit.ly. Privacy and security[edit] A short URL obscures the target address and can be used to redirect to an unexpected site. A collaborative and customizable editorial calendar.
Tag Type: Select either “Universal Analytics” or “Classic Analytics”, depending on whichever you are using. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. Shorten URL (e.g. bit.ly/buSzh) is meaningless because readers don’t know where the link is directing to. This can break your links and disable the tracking if these are not accepted by your website. If these names are duplicated it can affect your attribution data's integrity as installs from your owned media are attributed to integrated partners. You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar. Google Analytics doesn’t “listen” for link click events by default, so that’s why we have to go the extra work of creating a link click listener tag. 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. You could create a complex UTM code structure for a link but then shorten it via Bitly and use the link on a piece of direct mail.