You can shorten a link right away, although you’ll need to enter a CAPTCHA code. You need to be signed in to your bit.ly account before you can enter tracking data for the link. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 18 May 2011 More Revision 357: Removed: piurl.com, tr.im, kl.am; Added: min.ms, mrte.ch, v.gd; Thanks. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. Bitly provides smarter analytics tool that enable one to experience real time experience of how their shared link is performing online.
The last condition is to make sure that we don’t include any absolute URLs that belong to the domain we’re on. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one.
STEP 2: Create Tags for Tracking Individual Links You can create tags to track lots of different link clicks: – Email addresses – PDF and file downloads – Social media profiles – All external links, or – Just the most *important* external links – Important calls to action (ex: “Register Now”) – Etc., etc…. To track only the HTML version of your campaign, and not the plain-text version, you can create a custom tracking code using Google's resources and add it to the HTML of your campaign.
This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. Click the button next to 'All Events' and add the Tracking ID for your Google Analytics property. By doing this, they can centralize all their landing pages in one tracking application, and make changes instantly without having to go back to the websites or pages.
It's useful to know whether your user's screens have such capabilities, so you can build your site accordingly. They also allow you to track your links and provide you with the ability to understand and visualise your audience. The Google Analytics account has to be set up and configured before the tracked campaign is sent. Creative Files When creative files have been added to an offer, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional item labeled Creative. When you select a creative file from the dropdown menu, your tracking link is appended with the following parameter: file_id This parameter also appears in the standalone tracking link to track the performance of the creative in the stats reports: Deep Links If you have the custom deep link feature enabled for an offer, you can set a custom redirect URL to use instead of using one of the existing landing page URLs set in the offer already. If you set Use Google Analytics? to “Yes”, then all links will add special utm parameters that will allow you to identify traffic coming from emails in Google Analytics. A uniform resource locator (URL) is registered with a server. Best features are Which day of the week is best Which social media to post and Which city to post in.