Macro Name: element url hostname Macro Type: Custom Javascript Custom Javascript: Caveats If you have a Google Analytics Premium account, note that this will increase the # of events for you site. This code looked something like the mumbo jumbo in the bolded text below (something about recording the outbound link, yada yada): facebook Of course, that was a huge pain for web developers everywhere, so Google created Google Tag Manager. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. The information about moves cannot increase beyond a specific size, and it is automatically removed if it becomes unnecessary. Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it?
For more information on how to set up Google Analytics tracking manually, take a look at Google's help pages for URL building and tagging your links. Then reconnect with the same interested audience when my sequel is ready to be released. In this example we have used Twitter. utm_medium parameter is used to describe what kind of medium we have used, in this example we have used a Tweet. utm_campaign parameter to define a campaign name, slogan, promo code, etc. utm_term parameter is used to identify paid search keywords. utm_content You could be using a variety of content types in a campaign, this element allows you to differentiate among them. Abbreviate or shorten: Use common abbreviations to make things shorter or just chop off some letters of your name. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. An example Turn this URL: X0DER&pf_rd_s=center-10&pf_rd_r=11EYKTN682A79T370AM3&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1270985982&pf_rd_i=B002Y27P3M into this TinyURL: Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser?
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. This means your URLs for blog posts will be instead of or something along those lines. If you use an affiliate plugin to format your affiliate links into something like this then you will have to enable tracking of internal links as outbound links. 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. You can use click tracking tools, or Google analytics track clicks to external sites to check clicks coming from external links to your website and vice versa.
There is now a “Get Shortlink” button next to your permalink when you edit or write a post, and when you click it you’ll get a popup with the beautiful link already highlighted for your copy and pasting pleasure. That’s its unique identifying number, just as 9,998,383,750,001 would be the number used to identify which person was waiting after Beetlejuice.Shorten URL @ShortenURL 1 Jul 2013 More I just signed up in support of .
When a user visits your site and is interested in reading the content of a particular page, he or she simply clicks on the link and the page is opened. To change your public profile URL: Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage. Important: To keep the click from being recorded for payout, you must be logged into your HasOffers account with the same browser you use for the test. Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. We can detect whether a link will open a page on a domain which is different to ours. As you can see, setting up your short URL to forward to your LinkedIn profile is easy to do and makes it easier to connect with people professionally. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Then reconnect with the same interested audience when my sequel is ready to be released. ClickMeter is a link tracking tool that focuses on tracking links for your website so that you can monitor relevant clicks. Add retargeting pixels to short links for tracking interest in specific products and growing a list of qualified customers.You get a whopping 280 tiny Twitter characters to say what you want to say in a tweet. You can test that the certificate files were successfully processed by using one of your Hosted Pages. When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123.