Your TUNE account allows you to shorten your partner tracking links into tiny URLs. The shortened version still contain the fundamental tracking link information but conceal additional query strings for a reader. Once generated, shortened URLs take a few minutes to propagate to the ad servers and begin redirecting.
To shorten a tracking link into a tiny URL, navigate to an offer’s page, look for the Generate Tracking section, and check the box next to Generate Tiny URL. The Tracking Link field will be updated to a shortened version. If it doesn’t, click Update to refresh the field.
Note: When shortening a tracking link to a tiny URL, the tracking link must be less than 1600 characters in length.
Tiny URL Example
Let’s take a look at this typical tracking link:
http://demo.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=1048&aff_id=1006
Upon checking the Generate Tiny URL box, the above link is converted to something like this:
http://demo.go2cloud.org/SL2
If an additional parameter (such as a sub ID) is added after the tiny URL is generated, TUNE generates a new tiny URL to account for the added information. The following tracking link is the same as the one we started with above, but with an added parameter:
http://demo.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=1048&aff_id=1006&aff_sub=test
When the URL is converted to a tiny URL, TUNE automatically includes and conceals the additional parameter:
http://demo.go2cloud.org/SL6k
You can also append parameters to a tiny URL if you are looking to pass dynamic values into TUNE. For example, if you want to pass a sub ID on click, you can append that to the end of the shortened URL:
http://demo.go2cloud.org/SL2?aff_sub=test
View Existing Link Hashes
You can view all previously created tiny URLs by going to Offers > Tiny URLs. Behind the scenes, hash values are what represent larger amounts of data from the tracking links as the smaller values in tiny URLs.
To trace back what shortened URLs point to, look in the Hash column of the Tiny URL table:
Tip: To quickly find a particular redirect string, use the search function in the table. If you have the hash value from the URL, select “Hash” from the dropdown menu to search by that value.