If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. Bitly Tools If you think you will be needing an email shortener on a regular basis, you might as well go ahead and register on Bitly‘s site. They offer some convenient tools to make shortening URLs a faster process.
You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. OneLink™ enables using a single link to diagnose and redirect users to different locations based on their devices' type. More » Is.gd Is.gd provides one of the simplest URL shortening experiences by giving you nothing more than a field to input your long link so you can instantly transform into a shorter one. Google URL Shortener: This shortener is straight from Google and will be viewed as a Goo(dot)gl. Tinycc URLs use 301 redirects, which means your browser request will be responded to with a 301 = page moved permanently status code and will forward your browser to this "moved to" address (which we are calling the long URL).
Campaign Source Campaign source for an email should not be "email". However it does not include clicks on this link for other Links modules or any other types of modules. For example, if you run campaigns with Network-X, all users that come from Network-X are grouped under the tracker Network-X Installs. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks. In the Settings & Tracking section of the Campaign Builder, click Edit. Check the Track clicks box to enable click tracking, or uncheck the box to disable click tracking.
If you’d like to override the default value of email for utm_medium or add new utm parameters to your links, then go to the Advance tab of your template/campaign. This will allow you to plan your content strategy accordingly. This will help you give more time-oriented outreach to people who have recently pointed to your resources, these are the most apt to engage. 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.
Google URL Shortener: This shortener is straight from Google and will be viewed as a Goo(dot)gl. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”. Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. Your domain registar account usually has URL forwarding options for the domain. This method can create some clever domains and also have the advantage of using the domain extension itself as part of the word or words you're trying to convey. Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. Enter the post/update you want to share in the required field. Did you set a link to a file instead of a page on your website?