This question has probably been asked and answered elsewhere, but it came via email from one of our users earlier today:
Hi Linktrack.info,
I was browsing your site before and I’m a little confused about what you do. What is a URL tracking tool and how would I use it?
Of course, in my mind the answer is simple, but that’s because I work with URL tracking day in and day out as one of the programmers on the site. Like anything else when you work closely with something for a long time, you feel like every nuance is somehow common knowledge!
Thanks to this user for bringing me back down to earth. In a nutshell, here’s how a url tracking tool works (at least with this site):
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Create a tracking link which goes to your destination url
- Distribute that tracking link in whatever way is convenient for you. Put it in emails, on other web sites, etc.
- Every time someone follows that link, we record all the information available from that action and give it to you in a readable format.
That’s it. There are a a lot of different ways people use our tracking links – browse through some of our previous articles to see a few.