Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. Pretty Link is a killer plugin for people who want to mask their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, increase the reach of their website by spreading these links via Twitter, forums or comments on other blogs.


Features:

  • Gives you the ability to create clean, simple URLs on your website that redirect to any other URL

  • Generates random 2-3 character slugs for your URL or allows you to name a custom slug for your URL

  • Tracks the Number of Hits per link

  • Tracks the Number of Unique Hits per link

  • Provides a reporting interface where you can see a configurable chart of clicks per day. This report can be filtered by the specific link clicked, date range, and/or unique clicks.

  • View click details including ip address, remote host, browser (including browser version), operating system, and referring site

  • Download hit details in CSV format

  • Intuitive Javascript / AJAX Admin User Interface

  • Pass custom parameters to your scripts through pretty link and still have full tracking ability

  • Ability to rewrite these custom Parameters before forwarding to Target URL

  • Setup Pretty Links as Tracking Pixels and track impressions

  • Exclude IP Addresses from Stats

  • Enables you to post your Pretty Links to Twitter directly from your WordPress admin

  • Enables you to send your Pretty Links via Email directly from your WordPress admin

  • Select Temporary (307) or Permanent (301) redirection for your Pretty Links

  • Cookie based system for tracking visitor activity across hits

  • Organize Links into Groups

  • Create nofollow/noindex links

  • Turn tracking on / off on each link

  • Keep users on your site even when being redirected by using the PrettyBar which stays at the top of the page

  • Configure the PrettyBar to mirror the look and feel of your website

Great things you can do with Pretty Link

  • Clean up / mask affiliate links or merchant shopping cart links

  • Track the effectiveness of email campaigns by embedding Pretty Links in your emails

  • See how many times an email is opened by creating a “Tracking Pixel” Pretty Link and embedding it in the email

  • Kickstart and Fuel the SEO on your site by posting Pretty Links from your site on Digg, Twitter, Facebook, other blogs and everywhere else on the Internet.

  • Create Pretty Links for private special offers (to your email list) using a randomized slug to prevent the URL from being “guessed”

  • Write custom scripts in PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP or anything else that accept parameters and use Pretty Link to make their URLs “pretty” and forward on the parameters

  • Setup pretty links for your zip, pdf & binary files and track how many times they are downloaded

  • Use to track results of your PPC campaigns by setting your ads to go to Pretty Links

  • Track Everything!