You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. You should not see any warnings and the page should load normally.This tactic was actually shown to me by Jeremiah Smith (my brother) over at SimpleTiger.
This sounds like a lot of work if you want to track all your outgoing links. But, the good news is, the one I am gonna share below is as secure as possible.
Sign Up and Install the Code The sign up process is simple and straightforward. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 5 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 5, 2011 Thanks. If you are trying to make a quick buck on your visitors I suggest this site. It’s a pain, but the outbound link tracking code shown below won’t work without it. (It could be made to work with legacy Analytics, but it’ll eventually stop working so it’s best to upgrade now.) Custom Event Tracking Analytics supports event tracking.
Note: In the below image, more than one language is enabled for the site, therefore the link includes the associated language. For more information on each partner, check out the Special Partners Guide. You need to categorize each link in each email so that the information reported is useful. This code looked something like the mumbo jumbo in the bolded text below (something about recording the outbound link, yada yada): facebook Of course, that was a huge pain for web developers everywhere, so Google created Google Tag Manager.
With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any page on your site. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. Total clicks Total number of times any tracked link was clicked. Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content. Login to your Universal Google Analytics account and check to see that there are events recorded in the “Events”section of Google Analytics. Ecommerce data can take up to 24 hours to show in Google Analytics.