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. 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. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. HootSuite also allows you to view a dashboard that tracks clicks for each shortened link shared in the management system.
The nextPageToken will be present on all but the last page. items contains the list of entries for the first "page" of the user's history, in order of descending creation time. For example, if the user clicks on “sales@wearefine.com”, that’s what Google Analytics will record. Brand the client's links to increase engagement and inspire audience trust.
Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent * using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it. */ var trackOutboundLink = function(url) { ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, { 'transport': 'beacon', 'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;} }); } You'll also need to add (or modify) the onclick attribute to your links. There are two techniques that we are going to discover today in this video: Outbound Link Tracking with UTM Parameters Inbound LInk Tracking with Google Analytics Event Tracking Depending on what kind of Link you want to track theses are the methods that will let you accomplish Link Tracking. 🔗 Links mentioned in the video: UTM Tool: Manual Event Tracking: ... 🎓 More from Measureschool 🆓 Correct Google Analytics Setup Course: ... 🆓 GTM Resource Guide: 🆓 GTM Beginner course: Courses: 📚 Recommended Measure Books: ... 📷 Gear we used to produce this video: ...This tactic was actually shown to me by Jeremiah Smith (my brother) over at SimpleTiger. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. You can also monitor how many clicks your link has received, how much is it being shared online and in which countries, that too along with the real timeline of when these events took place.
The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page. Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. Sign In to Google Tag Manager Create a Account Name the Container for your site Accept the Terms & Conditions Copy & Paste the GTM code block at the start of the
tag on your site Setup the Link Tracker Add a tag to capture all the link clicks Create a macro to save the anchor text Add a tag to fire off the Google Analytics Event Add a rule to capture only the clicks on external links Save a version and publish 1.A Microsoft Security Brief recommends the creation of short-lived URLs, but for reasons explicitly of security rather than convenience.[6] History[edit] An early reference is US Patent 6957224, which describes ...a system, method and computer program product for providing links to remotely located information in a network of remotely connected computers. As an example, their tracking system could have a session ID macro that you use to replace "CLICKID", and another macro for a unique user hash that you use to replace "UNIQUEVALUE". It can take up to 36 hours from sending a campaign to see analytics results in the MailChimp campaign report. The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general. A total of five parameters are automatically appended when you enable Google Analytics: utm_campaign: will automatically be the name of the campaign as it appears in Sailthru. utm_medium: will automatically be “email”. utm_source: will automatically be “Sailthru”. utm_term: will automatically be the name of the sending list as it appears in Sailthru. utm_content: if you are sending an AB Split or AB Winner or Auto Winner Campaign, this utm parameter will be added to your links. Tracking Opened Emails Companies running email campaigns often want to be able to track how many times their emails were opened. Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent * using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it. */ var trackOutboundLink = function(url) { ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, { 'transport': 'beacon', 'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;} }); } You'll also need to add (or modify) the onclick attribute to your links. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier. You could create a complex UTM code structure for a link but then shorten it via Bitly and use the link on a piece of direct mail. The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date to make it easy to search for in your Analytics dashboard. Set Different Titles for Emails in a Series All emails in an automation series will have the same title in your Google Analytics account unless you set a separate title for each.