Is Google Url Shortener a good tracker ??

[GoodLife Naciri]

Hey ! I shortened an url 2 days ago and I noticed that its dashboard show the quantity of traffic, the device ... like a tracker, the question is, Can I use it as a tracker for my campaigns ???

 

[World7]

No, you should use UTM

 

[thetrustedzone]

You need more details for your money campaign...

 

[Petty Link]

You can Add Google Analytics To your website

 

[greymoon]

I dont suggest you to do this specially if you work with adult niche because they bans affilaite links and short urls stops working after some time. Happened multiple times here

 

[andretg]

I dont suggest you to do this specially if you work with adult niche because they bans affilaite links and short urls stops working after some time. Happened multiple times here

True - in my case it didn't work in the first place saying something about spam. There's two solutions:
1)Use custom affiliate tracker link - Peerfly has a blogpost about it.
2)Use another shortener. Bitly works in most cases and Tinycc works with everything. They both have basic stats.

 

[pawan2329]

There are free dedicated campaign trackers available especially if your traffic is lesser than 100k a month.
Google url shortner has tons of terms and conditions. your links will soon be blocked. And that would mean a lot of money.

 

[hungtulo]

I dont suggest you to do this specially if you work with adult niche because they bans affilaite links and short urls stops working after some time. Happened multiple times here

what would you suggest for the adult traffic as a shortener

 

[Jack_Dust]

tr im is the better

 

[Deleted member 657006]

short url
https://bitly.com

cloak
profit redirect

use a tracker free wordpress plugin or tge one in cpannel.

dont use any google stuff becouse your doing blackhat methods

 

[easy way around]

Using of Google Analytics will be better option..

 

[Deleted member 657006]

no it a bad idea anythink related to google bad idea for blackhat methods .

 

[Traffic Key]

Google Analytics is only a good tracker. Goo.gl can't track fake traffic.

 

[JinxerCraft]

Yes,It;s better because they only count real and genuine traffic.
Often they count BOT Traffic also.
But only if the traffic quality is good to be counted.
So,I think,It's good than any other paid or non paid tracker.

 

[Deleted member 657006]

i use a tracker that comes with cpannel good enough for me .

i dont no but i think google anlantics can leave footprints and doing blackhat is bad for google to no .

your domain can get slaped or ban also google can restict traffic from your website.

be warned .

 

[HoNeYBiRD]

Hey ! I shortened an url 2 days ago and I noticed that its dashboard show the quantity of traffic, the device ... like a tracker, the question is, Can I use it as a tracker for my campaigns ???

Depends on what do you want to use it for. There are a few things, which are accurate, such as the amount of clicks, OS, browser, but it doesn't show the referer accurately, even when it should be known, it shows blank/unknown referer often. The country breakdown also lacks big time. For instance with a big enough sample, you can see that more than half of the clicks don't show up in the country stats at all. With that said, you can use it for basic tracking, but you'll find often that it's not good enough.