Hanselman was redirected through a convoluted path that used link shortening for analytics and tracking, and found the end result frustrating from a user standpoint. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. Under Tracking, click the Google Analytics link tracking box. Most URL shortening services offer basic analytic data that tracks the total number of clicks, the time of the click and the country or territory location of the person who clicked the link.
Some countries place restrictions on who can register domains with its country TLD — though this is becoming less and less common as countries realize the revenue opportunities from selling domains worldwide. Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. Clicking on it will show you a list of outgoing URL(s) users clicked on your website.
Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period. It’s a good way to package up multiple links into one link. The last condition is to make sure that we don’t include any absolute URLs that belong to the domain we’re on. On this page enter your Google Analytics tracking ID and click the Save button. Check the Enable OneLink box - the custom URL changes to OneLink Note The link is automatically multi-platform enabled.
After learning this bitter lesson, SEO became careful in selecting and placing links to their websites. You can use Analytics Events to track clicks on links that take users to a website other than your own. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them. 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. Create a single responsive short link to direct readers and split into two targets based on their operating system (e.g.
You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. Authorizing requests and identifying your application Every request your application sends to the Google URL Shortener API needs to identify your application to Google. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Signin in with your twitter account and shorten your long links ! Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. If you use a third-party for some of your emails, you might use that third-party's name. While this solution might not compete with the extremely short URLs that link shortening services can provide (and without the equivalent analytics packages), it would avoid the link shortening middleman and let your user know at a glance where your link will take them. — Is link shortening for you? Track how many users send a referral by using a “sent invitation” event This also allows you to see how often different user segments invite their friends, which can be an important performance metric. Turn your links on and off, point them to a new destination or add new options any time. Be sure that you spell gtm.linkClick exactly as it looks: this field is case sensitive. 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.