Our agency activities and custom domain portfolio remains private and secure. Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs: Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around.
But be aware that even if you never intend to share a link, search engines own some web based services like Gmail, Google Drive or Google Docs (same applies to Bing and Outlook.com / OneDrive) links can be indexed, even if located inside of "private" online documents and emails. With a list that sorts each PDF in order of performance. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it? This code defines the tracking action and delays loading of the outbound link by 100 milliseconds so that Google Analytics can track the click: Insert this code in addition to the standard Google Analytics tracking code for the page.
Add TinyURL to your browser's toolbar Click and drag the following link to your links toolbar. We can use event tracking to record outbound links but there are a number hurdles to overcome: the event must be recorded on all browsers and not impede navigation we should not need to manually identify or attach separate handlers to every outbound link, and we must ensure the event is recorded before the outbound page starts to load. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Once you've found a domain you like, you'll need to register it.
Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles. It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. Examples of this are rickrolling, redirecting to shock sites, or to affiliate websites. Last clicked The most recent date and time someone clicked a tracked link in your campaign. You need an Admin user level or higher to connect this integration.
They are the building blocks of navigation and the currency of the web. With any premium account, just select the "public tracking" option for your link and share the tracking page with your client. Use Custom Short URLs in my books and newsletters to encourage trust and build brand loyalty with fans. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. More » Is.gd Is.gd provides one of the simplest URL shortening experiences by giving you nothing more than a field to input your long link so you can instantly transform into a shorter one. Link shortening service vb.ly was shut down back in 2010 by Libya, which leads to the problematic fact of link shortening: you depend upon a third-party service to deliver visitors through your shortened links. Reset Your Tracking Data Premium account holders can reset tracking data to zero at any time. If you already have a domain you want to use just point it at our site and add it to your account. Masking means that your affiliate URL never becomes visible in a browser address bar. • A very simple method if you have your own website is to create a blank html page and paste the following code into the blank page (substituting your affiliate URL). Then name the html page something that makes sense for the application such as .