Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS. The first condition allows this tag to just wait until it sees a link click event, which is the gtm.linkClick event that we were listening for above. For example, if your source is "newsletter", the medium should not be "email newsletter". A link converted by Twitter’s link service is checked against a list of potentially dangerous sites.
You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. Once you have made these modifications, click on APPLY for each and then finally CREATE. Authenticate your Google Analytics profile or enter UA-Code manually. For example, you may not have more than 10,000 different values of creative for a particular tracker.
This means you couldn't register, for example, domain.uk. Also, you can choose the redirect type of your link, depending on whether you plan on changing your destination URL in the future. What’s really great is you don’t have to add any of your own custom javascript. As a result, many have been removed from online registries or shut down by web hosts or internet service providers. The key to protecting your SEO, then, is to choose a link shortening service that uses a 301 redirect.
Google won’t be offering classic Google Analytics in the near future. Therefore it's important to keep a tack of the links to your website. In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc.
Have you given the reports enough time to populate? You can also get a visual glimpse of your engagement for a different perspective. Determines unique and non-unique click distribution. These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. When a visitor clicks on your tracking link, LinkTrackr places a cookie on the user’s computer, as well as generate a unique Click Tracking ID or CTID. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally powerful server-side analytics engine, and unlike the latter, does not require any access to the server.