As a result, many have been removed from online registries or shut down by web hosts or internet service providers. If you navigate to a previously claimed URL, you may see a page that reads Profile Not Found. However, Google Analytics can also provide you information about what users do when they come on your website, which banners or links they click the most, what product placements are working better on your website, which social media campaigns are bringing you more traffic, etc. Under Tracking, click the Google Analytics link tracking box.
Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. The distributed link tracking service enables client applications to track link sources that have moved. Link Tracking information is displayed on the Edit Item page of any link it is enabled for. There’s no default macro that allows you to get the anchor text of the link, so we’ll create a custom Javascript macro to easily do this. To view the report Overview for a campaign, follow these steps. Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover.
Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. Macro Name: element url hostname Macro Type: Custom Javascript Custom Javascript: Caveats If you have a Google Analytics Premium account, note that this will increase the # of events for you site. Understanding which external links are most often clicked on your website will help you understand what kind of information users are looking for.
Leave Query String: Includes URL parameters when evaluating matches with internal and external filters. Shorten Link Action Shortened links are very useful because: 1.
This way they can use shortened URLs but still give people confidence about where the link will lead. It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. 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. Click the name of the report you want to work with. Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine! This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress. Web PR enthusiast Steve Rubel shared this tip, directly from bit.ly's management, on his personal stream site, and it's a good one. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements. ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand? Get free resources Get in touch Hosting a large or complex event? Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine! If you’re not tracking your links, you’re probably leaving tons of money on the table, spending more than you can afford, and struggling to keep up with dozens of online marketing campaigns. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand.