URL Tracking Tool

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

  2. Distribute that tracking link in whatever way is convenient for you. Put it in emails, on other web sites, etc.
  3. 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.