For example: - campaign-level tracker {publisher_id} - campaign-level tracker with creative, but not adgroup data In this case, your data will be assigned to the campaign and tracker with an unknown adgroup. It’s a whole lot easier to say, “go to sham.rocks.” than “go to linkedin.com/in/alexkehr.When you use LinkedIn, a professional social networking website, to post updates to your Home or Profile pages, LinkedIn automatically shortens any URL addresses that contain more than 26 characters. Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call. Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 19 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 19, 2011 Thanks. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks.
Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. Add TinyURL to your browser's toolbar Click and drag the following link to your links toolbar. That helps you track to see who follows links that originate with you, which means you can track your viral marketing impact - or just give yourself an ego boost.
Tag Name: You can name a tag anything you like: “Link Click Listener” seems like a pretty obvious place to start. You should see the activity in the Analytics Real-Time > Events panel.
There is no way to stop affiliates from adding their own custom payout on click using this parameter. Once you've done so, you'll be able to use the payout parameter: Warning: This setting can be prone to abuse and should only be used for internal campaigns.
We will show you how you can enable automatic tracking of all outbound links in Google Analytics with WordPress. Whenever you paste a link into Buffer to be scheduled to post at a later time, it automatically shortens the link for you. If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question. In the Tracking Pixels menu, click on “Google Universa…” A new window will open. You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar. After you have an API key, your application can append the query parameter key=yourAPIKey to all request URLs. They are available for a variety of programming languages; check the page with libraries and samples for more details. Doing so generates a tracking link unique to that publisher and offer: What is generated looks something like this: Each part of the affiliate tracking link helps our ad server determine what to do with the traffic when a user follows the link: demo.go2cloud.org - This is the tracking domain of your network, using the provided go2cloud.org domain. aff_c - This part after the domain tells the ad server that this user is clicking through, as opposed to a conversion or impression. offer_id=1001 - In HasOffers, each offer is given an ID number, which is used to connect the click session to the rest of an offer's information. aff_id=2002 - The affiliate ID tells HasOffers which publisher receives credit for the click and the conversion (if the user converts). However, if you do this then you'll miss out on transaction data being sent to Google Analytics. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums. Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs).