View Click Results on the Clicked Page To view a list of all recipients that clicked any tracked link in the campaign, follow these steps. If you do nothing but add the tracking script to your pages, you’ll be faced with an endless stream of data and reports about user activity on your site. Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content.
This URL shortener also allows you to set a custom short URL. UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You can also get a general overview of both open and click statistics from the Campaigns page in your account. This delay can be made worse if the account is set up close to the weekend because sometimes data aggregation slows and gets pulled in on Monday.
Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. Copy and paste the URL you create into your web browser's address bar, then press enter. By default, these users would instead be redirected to the iTunes landing page. It works almost immediately and you can shorten as much as you want, anytime.
When you check the box to enable tracking, we'll show the campaign title as it will appear in your Google Analytics account after the campaign is sent. More » AdF.ly AdF.ly takes an interesting approach to link shortening by offering its users the opportunity to earn money by using its service. Static URLs only contain dots, slashes, dashes or underscores. eg: and are considered clean or user-friendly URLs because they are more human readable and descriptive than dynamic URLs. If you are using the newer Universal tracking please refer to the docs. With its own URL shortener, you can ensure that your long links are kept safe and secure for your visitors.
Still, you can create shorter links for other uses that don’t rely on link shortening services. Launch your Web browser and go to the Web page for your preferred URL shortening service. The regEx is a bit more complex than one would expect but it’s addressing a couple of use cases. This means that while a network-level tracker can accept data for any of the lower steps in the hierarchy, an adgroup-level tracker would only accept data for the creative level. But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. Head over to the Tools page and you will see instructions for adding a Bitly bookmarklet and/or browser extension to your favorite web browser. 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. Complete control over which campaigns our clients can see in their accounts. Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. On this page enter your Google Analytics tracking ID and click the Save button.