Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. For example: Services Brochure In the above URL we’ve added the parameter “?pdf=Services-Brochure” to the end of the PDF URL link. Check Validation: Also optional, but this just makes sure the user “really” clicked on the link.
Creating a shortened page slug is simple in WordPress. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create.
For example: Bitly is one of the most popular link shortening services, and the one we prefer to use with CoSchedule. Links to files on removable media are not maintained. When a request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is searched for an associated URL.
From there, you can click Export as CSV to download a list of contacts for each link result. On the Links tab, Click Performance displays your tracked URLs and the number of total and unique clicks for each. When you create menu items on your website, you are creating internal links to the item pages. Other link tracker software use only cookies, which severely limits what you can track and how you track. It gives you yet another level of analytics that you can use to base your decisions on. Before you send your campaign, make a note of these unique IDs so you'll know which Google Analytics title goes with which combination of your campaign.
Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right? In some cases, the political or cultural aspects of the country in charge of the top-level domain may become an issue for users and owners,[4] but this is not usually the case. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 17 Dec 2012 More Have you experimented with promoted tweets on ? Maybe you find an interesting photo or song, or you want to refer people to another article someone else wrote.