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Zubair Mohsin
Zubair Mohsin

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Tracking link click from SMS, or any link!

How do you track a "link click" from an SMS? It's pretty simple 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • Shorten your "actual link" ✂️
  • Send that "shortened link" in SMS 📲
  • User clicks on "shortened link" in SMS and opens it up in browser 🤏
  • Boom, that's a click 🥳 (Increment your clicks stats)
  • Now you can redirect them to "actual link" ♺

That's how all link click tracking works actually 🤷🏻‍♂️

Let's take a look at Twitter as an example:

When you click on any link shared inside a tweet, Twitter first redirects you to a url https://t.co. That's how link clicks are calculated in Twitter analytics.

bit.ly works the same 😉

I hope someone finds it useful 🙌🏼

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