Smart Link

Description:

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! Smart Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. Smart 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 Smart link and still have full tracking ability
  • Ability to rewrite these custom Parameters before forwarding to Target URL
  • Setup Smart Links as Tracking Pixels and track impressions
  • Exclude IP Addresses from Stats
  • Enables you to post your Smart Links to Twitter directly from your WordPress admin
  • Enables you to send your Smart Links via Email directly from your WordPress admin
  • Select Temporary (307) or Permanent (301) redirection for your Smart 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 SmartBar which stays at the top of the page
  • Configure the SmartBar to mirror the look and feel of your website

Great things you can do with Smart Link

  • Clean up / mask affiliate links or merchant shopping cart links
  • Track the effectiveness of email campaigns by embedding Smart Links in your emails
  • See how many times an email is opened by creating a “Tracking Pixel” Smart Link and embedding it in the email
  • Create Smart 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 Smart Link to make their URLs “Smart” and forward on the parameters
  • Setup Smart 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 Smart Links
  • Track Everything!

Installation:

  1. Upload ‘Smart-link.zip’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Make sure you have changed your permalink Common Settings in Settings -> Permalinks away from “Default” to something else. I prefer using custom and then “/%postname%/” for the simplest possible URL slugs.

Screenshots:

Like the plugin?

If you are impressed with the plugin and would like to give back, here are some ways you can support this plugin:

  • Rate this plugin 5 stars in WordPress Plugin Directory.
  • Buy me a cup of coffee or two.
  • Spread the word about my plugin by writing about it on your blog, tweeting, digging, stumbling, etc.

Download:

Donations (Thank you!):

All donors giving $75 or more will automatically get a do-follow link on this list (this page is PR5!) for 180 days! It’s my way of saying, “Thank you for your generous support”. (need more reasons to donate?)

If you are going to donate $75 or more please mail to 111plugins@gmail.com with your donation details so that I can put your link on this page in the donors section.

Donors:

Bob form blogform-4/24/2010

Chetan form Vitbuzz -5/29/2010

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12 Responses to “Smart Link”

  1. helena says:

    Hey Im sorry for the heavy message, but I am wondering if you understand what this means.. something went wrong with the upload. I just changed the web page with -page- . I uploaded my page through my host, I dont know it it has anything to do with the case.

    Besides your plugin looks great!

    H

    message:

    Warning: require_once(/hermes/web04/b2176/-page-/wp-content/plugins/Smart-link/classes/models/PrliOptions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hermes/web04/b2176/-page-/wp-content/plugins/smart-link-final/prli-config.php on line 9

    Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/hermes/web04/b2176/-page-/wp-content/plugins/Smart-link/classes/models/PrliOptions.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php-5.2.12/lib/php’) in /hermes/web04/b2176/-page-/wp-content/plugins/smart-link-final/prli-config.php on line 9

  2. ethan says:

    Installation of this plugin doesn’t work. Whether I upload it manually or let wordpress add the plugin for me, it always produces a fatal error when I try to activate it

  3. Anne says:

    Hi,

    I’ve just downloaded and uploaded to make sure I have the latest version but I’m still getting a fatal error when I try activate this plugin.

    The message I get is the same one as helena

    Regards

  4. Anne says:

    ok, I changed the following two lines of code and it’s installing fine now:

    define(‘PRLI_PATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);
    define(‘PRLI_PATH’,'/’.PRLI_PLUGIN_NAME);

    Regards

  5. ethan says:

    Sorry, but I keep getting that fatal error when I try to activate the plugin. I’ve tried downloading it straight from within wordpress and downloaded it from your link above and installed it manually and every time, when I try activating, I get the fatal error stated in the top of the comments.

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