Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. On the Setup step, provide a title for the email in the Google Analytics title for email field. Examples of this are rickrolling, redirecting to shock sites, or to affiliate websites.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 21 May 2011 More Version 0. If so, you may use the same campaign name for some of your emails, cpc ads and banner ads so that you can get a sense of how well the overall campaign is performing. Open the app where you would like to paste the address.
In those cases, you can add the following parameters to your affiliate tracking link for your publisher to provide more data: Source & Affiliate Sub IDs Some of the most commonly used parameters are the traffic source and affiliate sub ID parameters: source aff_sub aff_sub2 aff_sub3 aff_sub4 aff_sub5 These parameters are used to store non-unique session information from the affiliate’s tracking system that they want passed back on conversion. Scott Hanselman wrote a short but interesting post tracing the amount of redirection that happened on a single shortened link.
It is simple to change your permalink structure, though if you have been blogging for a while you will need to redirect your old URLs to the new permalinks. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing.
Boom, ka-bang, you can now see your PDF's Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Avg. Tag Name: External Link Tracking » GA Universal Tag Type: Google Universal Analytics Web Property ID: Your Google Universal Analytics UA id Event Type: Event Event Tracking Parameters Category: External Links Action: {{element url}} Label: {{element text}} Value: 1 Non-Interaction Hit: True Firing Rules Links - External Conditions {{event}} equals gtm.linkClick {{element url}} does not match RegEx (ignore case) ^/[^/] {{element url}} does not match RegEx (ignore case) ^[\w:]*//(www\.)?searchsignals\.com You can always rename the category and change the order of the label and action if you want to see it differently in the default Google Analytics view. For security, Google added automatic spam detection based on the same type of filtering technology used in Gmail. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. The regEx is a bit more complex than one would expect but it’s addressing a couple of use cases. Owned Media email and SMS campaigns, web site banners and landing pages, viral posts on social media or even QR codes on physical posters. So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful. With GTM, all you have to do is add a small bit of code to your pages, and it creates a simple container where you can configure everything from GA to Ads, all through a simple admin panel. This automatic behavior provides the best possible experience to your app users who open goo.gl links, no matter what platform or device they are on. 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.