In the olden days, if you wanted Google Analytics to track a specific click on a link, you used to have to ask a web developer to fix this up for you. For example, New York Times uses the shortened address “nyti.ms”. Keep your website safe Running a periodic check on your website's links will ensure that your website remains protected against spam and hackers.
This server service maintains information in the domain controllers about volumes and files that have been moved. The trickiest part of tagging links in an email is coming up with a consistent naming convention for each variable.
ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand? That would help you determine whether the announcement emails are worthwhile or perhaps whether the regular emails need to be reformatted. Initially Twitter automatically translated URLs longer than twenty-six characters using TinyURL, although it began using bit.ly instead in 2009[10] and later developed its own URL shortening service, t.co. Enter your user name and password and you should be connected, test the connection and you are all set to go. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. See if you are using Classic Analytics (ga.js) or Universal Analytics (analytics.js).