It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links. Macro Name: element text Macro Type: Custom JavaScript Custom Javascript: The .textContent property is built into most browsers which is nice, but you can always adapt the macro to use innerHTML or innerText depending on your needs. Note that all URLs in parameters should be encoded before they are entered as parameters.
All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default. Hanselman was redirected through a convoluted path that used link shortening for analytics and tracking, and found the end result frustrating from a user standpoint. Then when the page loads, it can load the Javascript and track the information in Google Analytics as expected.
But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. See more information about AppsFlyer's Tracking Link Structure and Parameters. Track how many users send a referral by using a “sent invitation” event This also allows you to see how often different user segments invite their friends, which can be an important performance metric. Same as Bit.do, Goo.gl also allows you to keep an eye of the URLs you shorten.
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. You can also determine if the links coming to your PDF are negative links coming from a website you don’t want to be affiliated with. To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. Copy your event page URL from Eventbrite and paste the URL into a new property in your Google Universal Analytics account and copy the created Tracking ID.
Parameters A parameter is an additional component that you add onto the tracker URL to modify its behaviour. You can shorten a link right away, although you’ll need to enter a CAPTCHA code. This way you don’t have to do all the copying and pasting in Bitly.com to get your shorter version. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API. Once this is enabled, you can append the following parameter to your tracking link: url Unlike the url_id parameter, this parameter expects a valid, encoded deep URL to be added for traffic to redirect to: Payout on Click In some cases, you may want to dynamically pass the payout that the publisher receives for a session.