Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover. Have you tested the Google Analytics URL parameters? Windows also includes the same heuristic link tracking with some added improvements for searching name spaces to yield results in some common scenarios.
In this example we have used Twitter. utm_medium parameter is used to describe what kind of medium we have used, in this example we have used a Tweet. utm_campaign parameter to define a campaign name, slogan, promo code, etc. utm_term parameter is used to identify paid search keywords. utm_content You could be using a variety of content types in a campaign, this element allows you to differentiate among them. What’s really great is you don’t have to add any of your own custom javascript. To see an example implementation from Demos & Tool, check out the source code.This tactic was actually shown to me by Jeremiah Smith (my brother) over at SimpleTiger. View Existing Tiny URL Hashes To find what existing hashed URLs point to, you can view all previously created tiny URLs by going to Offers > Tiny URLs.
Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default. You rely on this provider to keep your link viable into the future. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan.
When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. In your WordPress dashboard in Settings > Permalinks you can choose which format you’d like your permalinks to be. View Click Tracking Reports Click tracking tells you how your contacts interact with your content and whether they want to visit the destination URLs in your campaign. If your application uses Google Sign-In, some aspects of authorization are handled for you. Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS. 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.
Is there more than one type of Google Analytics tracking on your links? If you combine MailChimp's Google Analytics tracking with custom UTM tracking, this could skew results in reports. Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002. To learn more, read Troubleshooting Click Tracking. This tells you whether it’s working and resulting in actual page views and ticket sales—and whether that money or time is being well spent. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. Move up one directory and repeat steps 1 and 2 another three times, which can yield results if the object has moved nearby.