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Short URL and Stats

by Mukul Verma
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Short URL are all over the place, whats the best one for tracking stats?

I use BUD URL which works great, I would like to share and hear others thoughts?

Cheers,
Mukul
#short #stats #url
  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    su.pr is pretty good as is bit.ly
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  • Profile picture of the author Mukul Verma
    Originally Posted by Brad Gosse View Post

    su.pr is pretty good as is bit.ly
    Thanks, do both these have a tracking feature?

    Originally Posted by precious007 View Post

    bit.ly..

    However I would never use URL shortners.

    I don't get it why people don't use .php scripts on their sites to cloak the aff. links.. It's a simple bit of code that runs right from your server, and you can also track the clicks and everything. It's a lot safer..

    If you're using clickbank, the just use "tids" to do the tracking for you.

    Here's the code for the simple redirect.

    PHP Code:
    <?php
    header    ("Location: http://affid.product.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=xxxx");
    exit;
    ?>
    Just place the bit of code into a notepad file and rename the file with whatever you like. i.e product.php and place it on a new directory at the root of your website. Rename the directory to something like "recommended" , "recommends" , "go" etc.

    Here's how you aff. link should look like ...

    http://www.yoursite.com/recommends/product.php

    Al.
    This is great!!! Can you track on this method as well?

    ...if not, maybe add Google Analytics or use a short link as the redirect.

    Cheers,
    Mukul
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  • Profile picture of the author daviddson
    Hey,


    Mukul you are right that Short URL are all over the place. Some of my websites also have short url's but some time we have to use long url's too.

    thanks
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