If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values. If you would rather send these other devices to another location such as your website, check out fallback parameters in the next section.
In this article: Using Google Tag Manager If you use Google Tag Manager to manage your Analytics tracking, follow the instructions in Analytics Events to implement events. Well in this article, we will show you how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics. To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account. If a URL with missing protocol is submitted in a browser address bar the http:// is automatically assumed. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type-out or distribute. This will allow you to plan your content strategy accordingly.
The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. You can shorten a link right away, although you’ll need to enter a CAPTCHA code.
Hootsuite users will see their links shortened, but non-Hootsuite users can also use the shortener. You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc.
This tool is especially useful if you want to detect click-fraud, see real-time click stats, and measure social media traffic. This method can create some clever domains and also have the advantage of using the domain extension itself as part of the word or words you're trying to convey. But otherwise, the free account is useful enough for comprehensive link tracking. For a media battle of an organization distributing content, most likely a bitly is a superior alternative. Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions. When someone pastes this shorter URL in their browser, they are initially directed to the Bitly site. You can choose to either manually name everything, or use macros to plug in data for you: I generally use a combination of the two. Google Analytics even has a URL Builder tool where you can generate a URL with UTM parameters. This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them. Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. A hyperlink or link (clickable URL) is any text, image or button that you can click-on to jump to a new website or new page on the same site.