Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it? Unfortunately, the 140-character limit for tweets might make it difficult to get the entire video URL into the message.
In your WordPress dashboard in Settings > Permalinks you can choose which format you’d like your permalinks to be. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website.
It does not allow for a custom domain at this time. If you were to add this bit of text to the end of all your Eventbrite links, followed by the user's client ID, then instead of generating a new client ID when the user shows up, Google Analytics will continue using that one instead. Practice pasting URL You can practice copying and pasting the URL of this page by following the above steps and then pasting the URL into the text box, below.
When you compare top-level trackers, the behavior of your Network-X-driven users is compared to users from organic growth or from other networks. Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option. After you click on “Edit” you can change your slug to match whatever keywords (2-5 words are best) you are focusing on in the post. Other Helpful Macros If you have sites that you frequently link out to or have partnerships with, you might want to roll up the click events by domain name. Namely, I want to make sure that if have an absolute internal URL with www vs non-www that I capture both cases.
Set up conversion tracking in Google Analytics to track contacts from clicks to purchases on your website. A search engine spider can follow links just as your browser did and is satisfied if it sees the 301 redirect method in-use. To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account. These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case). First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. To store unique session information—like click IDs or user hashes—use the affiliate click ID or unique value parameters instead. At that time, Google will completely disable the URL shortener and all associated data will be lost. You can safely preview a short link by adding ~ or = to the end of the URL, for instance: Bookmarklets Shorten and share any page at the click of a bookmark, without installing extensions or apps.