View Click Tracking Reports Click tracking tells you how your contacts interact with your content and whether they want to visit the destination URLs in your campaign. A circumvention could be that a website provided its own shortlinks instead of relying on a third-party shortening service – but this is not common. Here are some guidelines: Campaign Name This field should contain some of the most specific information about what kind of email this is. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. I can see exactly how many page views and ticket sales result from various methods of getting the word out. To add such data, just enter it as the “label” parameter to a tracker URL.
UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create. Authenticate your Google Analytics profile or enter UA-Code manually. 1 billion times.[12] Around that time, bit.ly and TinyURL were the most widely used URL-shortening services.[12] One service, tr.im, stopped generating short URLs in 2009, blaming a lack of revenue-generating mechanisms to cover costs and Twitter's default use of the bit.ly shortener, and questioning whether other shortening services could be profitable from URL shortening in the longer term.[13] It resumed for a time,[14] then closed. This is because an unknown percentage of your recipients read emails with a program that doesn't execute JavaScript or store cookies. With its own URL shortener, you can ensure that your long links are kept safe and secure for your visitors.
Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent * using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it. */ var trackOutboundLink = function(url) { ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, { 'transport': 'beacon', 'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;} }); } You'll also need to add (or modify) the onclick attribute to your links. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. In this example you would use in place of your affiliate URL and when clicked on, it would instantly redirect to your affiliate URL which never appears in the browser address bar before clicking. • A second html method for website owners is to use an iframe.
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. WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com. Just save the tag and then test before publishing. Don’t fall for one of those “build your Twitter follower count fast” programs.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 11 May 2011 More Statistics for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Thanks. You can access detailed campaign click stats from the report Overview, the Click Performance, and the Clicked pages in the campaign report. Understand which one of my marketing channels or Ads are most effective and optimize digital Ad spend. Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. The tool is free and can be used whenever you want. If you already have a domain you want to use just point it at our site and add it to your account. The website is just as basic it was when it launched, but it does the deed. Troubleshooting Consider these possibilities if you see behavior you don't expect. They can hide their nefarious links in a shortened URL meaning people either clicked on the links and quickly learned to either never trust a shortened link, or to always use a link extraction site (e.g. WhereDoesThisLinkGo) to see where the shortened link actually went before they clicked. Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). Within this tab, you can also search locations, referral tweets, and popular tweets shared. This is similar to how UTM parameters work on the Web. Click Trackers, select NEW TRACKER and the Adjust Tracker Wizard will open up. Paste the link into a text file, so you can view the entire link, and find the value that follows c= at the end of the link address. Actions Shorten a long URL The Google URL Shortener API allows you to shorten URLs just as you would on goo.gl.