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. Instead of posting the "pretty" URL, you can shorten it by removing the "www." and using the post ID in the URL (e.g. "?p=1204").
That fact makes it easy to use only, in online profiles and anywhere else that you want to put a link and track it. You can add parameters that help track certain campaigns or store values from an affiliate's tracking system. But otherwise, the free account is useful enough for comprehensive link tracking. Note: If you will implement HSTS on your primary domain only, allowing your link domain to remain accessible via HTTP, the following actions are not needed. When users recommend web pages to each other, email and bookmarking sites are second only to search engines. • URLs greater than 78 characters long will usually wrap across a line feed, increasing likelihood of breaking.
Change http to https and then load the resulting URL. Smartphone users now prefer bezel-less phones to large devices with not so good/large screen. There are several techniques to implement a URL shortening. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data.
Not all protocols are capable of being shortened as of 2011, although protocols such as http, https, ftp, ftps, mailto, mms, rtmp, rtmpt, ed2k, pop, imap, nntp, news, ldap, gopher, dict and dns are being addressed by such services as URL Shortener. If your app is already multi-platform on Adjust, you don’t have to do anything; all your trackers are cross-platform by default. Privacy and security[edit] A short URL obscures the target address and can be used to redirect to an unexpected site. Your custom title will also appear at the end of the URL parameter, so you can see the stats for each individual PDF. Maybe you want a simple URL to put in a print add, or want to be kind to mobile readers of your content. Get Started For Free Email tracking that makes life easier email-tracking Know when emails are opened Get instant alerts the moment your emails are opened or clicked.
Campaign Source Campaign source for an email should not be "email". When using Google Analytics to track your link, the most common setup is to have the Javascript tracking code for Google Analytics placed on a page where your contacts visit. Another privacy problem is that many services' shortened URL format is small enough that it is vulnerable to brute-force search. I have used Google Analytics, bitly, ConversionFly, and ClickMagick works the best for me. View Click Tracking Reports Click tracking tells you how your contacts interact with your content and whether they want to visit the destination URLs in your campaign. Tracking Link Parameters Depending on which tracking protocol your offer uses, its affiliate conversion link may already include parameters for offer ID or affiliate ID. Using the parameters generated by default, HasOffers has enough information to create a session and redirect the user to the offer URL. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 10 Dec 2012 More Starting in February, 's URL shortener will add two more characters. These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use.