The second condition makes sure that we’re not capturing any relative links that typically looks like href="/some-url-path". Additionally, if the file is moved outside the domain or within a workgroup, it is found.
Sign Up and Install the Code The sign up process is simple and straightforward. 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.
To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. Creating a shortened page slug is simple in WordPress. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Clickmeter can also be used as a URL-shortening tool with advanced click-tracking.
Before Bitly (and even Twitter), there has been a URL shortener, it was TinyURL. AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. Once Twitter (and other social media) took off and introduced the 140-character limit, that shortened link became even more important.
A total of five parameters are automatically appended when you enable Google Analytics: utm_campaign: will automatically be the name of the campaign as it appears in Sailthru. utm_medium: will automatically be “email”. utm_source: will automatically be “Sailthru”. utm_term: will automatically be the name of the sending list as it appears in Sailthru. utm_content: if you are sending an AB Split or AB Winner or Auto Winner Campaign, this utm parameter will be added to your links. Even websites with quality content were penalized for “spammy” back links. If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. Move up one directory and repeat steps 1 and 2 another three times, which can yield results if the object has moved nearby. With a Professional account, you can use any of our alternative domain names for your tracking links. These parameters are also stored by HasOffers and can be passed in affiliate conversion links via HasOffers macros. With its own URL shortener, you can ensure that your long links are kept safe and secure for your visitors. Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots.