Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default. If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question. Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered.
If you have used either the UTM tracker or outbound link tracking in the past, then let us know of your experience. Before we go any further, you must upgrade to Universal Analytics. You’ll want to choose one that uses a 301 redirect for certain.
The best part of this shorner is that it allows you to be able to customize the ending of your link with almost any symbol.WordPress Short URL for Twitter Jan 08, 2010 Tags: TipsWordPress You may have noticed that Twitter no longer automatically shorten URLs in the tweets. Please see Google’s help page on Custom Campaigns for more information. If you‘re never visited Bitly.com, you might be surprised about what you can do in addition to shortening URLs.
6. V.gd V.gd is presented by the same company as Is.gd. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”. In the background, Analytics sends data by requesting an image beacon. Then head over to your event's Manage page and select “Tracking Pixels” to paste the Tracking ID and enable tracking for your event.
This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. 0, your application needs the scope information, as well as information that Google supplies when you register your application (such as the client ID and the client secret). 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. Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark. Adding tracking directly to your site If you have added the Analytics tracking code directly to your site, you can copy and paste the script below into your own pages to set up Event tracking for outbound links. If you’d like to override the default value of email for utm_medium or add new utm parameters to your links, then go to the Advance tab of your template/campaign. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks. In this case you can use Google’s Disavow Link tool in Google Webmaster Tools to let Google know that you don’t approve of that link. Boom, ka-bang, you can now see your PDF's Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Avg. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint.