Select the “Google Universal Analytics” tracking pixel button. The Google Analytics account has to be set up and configured before the tracked campaign is sent. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. If you set up tracking this way, you won't be able to see the Google Analytics statistics in MailChimp.
But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Here are just a few that seem to be popular: Bitly: TinyURL.com: Goo.gl: To find more options, just type “url shortening” or “url shortening services” into your favorite search engine. A few well-known websites have set up their own URL shortening services for their own use – for example, Twitter with t.co, and Google with goo.gl.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks. For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es". I'm sure there are also better ways this can be done, so if you have your own way of doing it please leave me some comments below!You probably want to use event tracking - this is a simple Javascript function to can fire from the click event on your links.
I think a few of these points are worth following up on. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API.
More » Goo.gl Here’s Google’s very own URL shortener, which is a popular choice that’s useful for just getting the job done as quickly as possible. But as Dave Winer articulated, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a shortener ourselves, and here we are. 🙂 People are already using it. In the input box that appears, enter a placeholder value for your publisher so they know where to replace values. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. More » Ow.ly Another popular alternative, Ow.ly is a link shortener from the leading social media application known as HootSuite. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws.