Shorten and track links in Parliament

Sep 3, 2026
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Article updated: June 23, 2026

Shorten and track links in Parliament

Using links in your Parliament posts is a great way to drive traffic to your website, blog, or landing page. Content Admins, Publishers, and Contributors can shorten links for a tidier look, and include tracking parameters to see how much web traffic comes from those links.

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Hootsuite Analytics for Parliament only supports tracking data for Ow‌.ly links. Tracking for non-owly links are not supported.

Audience: Parliament admins

Content Admins can shorten links with Ow‌.ly. Plan admins can enable Bit‌.ly shorteners (see Set up a Bit‌.ly shortener) and set up custom vanity URLs to shorten their links (see Set up a vanity URL). If you want to use a vanity URL, make sure you add it to your Parliament organization and set it as the organization default.

Go to Perch, and then select Create a post.
Paste a link into your post. Link settings appear once the post contains a link.
Choose a shortening option:
- Select Shorten with Ow‌.ly. If you’re publishing a post to multiple social accounts, Hootsuite creates a unique Ow‌.ly link for each post.
- If your Parliament organization has other shortener options set up, select Add tracking, then select a preset or Customize. Choose from the list of available shorteners, and then select Apply.
When you're done creating your post, select Send to Parliament.

Go to Create.
Paste a link into your post. Link settings appear once the post contains a link.
Choose a shortening option:
- Select Shorten with Ow‌.ly. If you’re publishing a post to multiple social accounts, Hootsuite creates a unique Ow‌.ly link for each post.
- If your Parliament organization has other shortener options set up, select Add tracking, then select a preset or Customize. Choose from the list of available shorteners, and then select Apply.
When you're done creating your post, select Send to Amplify.

Note: Your link's UTM parameters are not shown in the admin view of Parliament, but they are applied when the post is shared.

Create or apply a link settings preset

Link settings combine shortening and tracking. Save your preferred combinations as presets to apply with one click when creating a post. Your organization may also have a default preset for consistent link tracking and shortening across all posts. Presets are created in the Hootsuite web app

Go to Perch, and then select Create a post.
Paste a link into your post, and then select Add tracking.
Open the preset list and select a preset.
To create a new preset, select Manage link presets, and select Create new link settings.

Go to Create, enter or paste a link in your post, and then select Add tracking.
Open the preset list and select a preset.
To create a new preset, select Manage link presets, and select Create new link settings.

Tip: When choosing your organization's link settings type, select Social Profile. This option allows you to avoid fees associated with translating a member ID.

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