Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Using them ensures all parameters on the tracking link are transferred and parsed correctly for all platforms, browsers and scenarios. It's possible to shorten regular custom links or OneLink URLs: Shorten Regular Custom Link You can use as many parameters as you'd like on a tracking link and use Shorten Link to convert the link to a short one. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener.
They both built with the same engine so there is no difference between them in terms of features an capabilities. This is a string of encrypted numbers and alphabets. Your Network-X Installs are further grouped by each Network-X campaign you have set up in your dashboard, and further by each adgroup. The key to protecting your SEO, then, is to choose a link shortening service that uses a 301 redirect. Here’s Tom Scott to explain why YouTube will probably never run out of IDs. All links will automatically be rewritten when they are included in your emails, wrapped in a unique tracking URL that uses the Link Domain you have set on your Settings Page. To activate link tracking for a given template or campaign, within its settings, simply ensure that the Link Tracking option is set to Yes. We recommend turning on link tracking; if link tracking is disabled, the attribution described above will not function.
Example: link UPDATE The above is for the older version of the API - ga.js. Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. Tinyarro.ws, and qoiob.com use Unicode characters to achieve the shortest URLs possible, since more condensed URLs are possible with a given number of characters compared to those using a standard Latin alphabet.[citation needed] Services may record inbound statistics, which may be viewed publicly by others.[5] Expiry and time-limited services[edit] Many providers of shortened URLs claim that they will "never expire" (there is always the implied small print: so long as we do not decide to discontinue this service—there is no contract to be breached by a free service, regardless of "promises"—and remain in business).
We can use event tracking to record outbound links but there are a number hurdles to overcome: the event must be recorded on all browsers and not impede navigation we should not need to manually identify or attach separate handlers to every outbound link, and we must ensure the event is recorded before the outbound page starts to load. Bitly also allows you to customize the actual shortened link (if your customization is still available). Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements.
I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. Note: Not all website UTM parameters work properly with Google Analytics. Custom Variables If using the affiliate sub IDs and source values are insufficient for passing through values on click to the landing page, you can set up custom variables to use in the offer URL and tracking link. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date to make it easy to search for in your Analytics dashboard. Set Different Titles for Emails in a Series All emails in an automation series will have the same title in your Google Analytics account unless you set a separate title for each.