Track Unique Visitors With a Professional account, we'll analyze your tracking data and tell you which visitors are unique. 1 billion times.[1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address.
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. AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener. Tag Manager uses several different types of event listener tags. STEP 1: Create a Link Click Listener Tag Note: This step is not required any more with newer versions of Tag Manager. This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns.
Ever heard the saying, ”the shorter the better?” Well, I actually, made that up. Tracking Visits from Emails Tracking visitors that come from emails is simple enough if you use campaign tracking for each link. You need to be signed in to your bit.ly account before you can enter tracking data for the link. Our thanks also go out to our friends at GoDaddy and in Montenegro for help with the domain.You get a whopping 280 tiny Twitter characters to say what you want to say in a tweet. In this article, you’ll learn how to add Google Analytics tracking to your email campaigns, archives, and list pages.
Note These link tracking schemes are transparent to the end-user. These are all exposed in the
using rel=shortlink.Some services such as Bitly and Goo.gl offer a simple feature of just adding a “+” character on the end of the shortened URL to get a preview of the destination of the shortened URL. Link shortening adds another of redirection to an “already creaky system“, according to Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious. In fact, just from YouTube’s 11 characters, it can encode the numbers from one to 73,786,976,294,838,206,464 in base64. How Click Tracking Looks in Plain-Text Campaigns To track a click, the original URL has to be replaced with one that points to our servers and redirects to the destination URL. With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any page on your site. You can also determine if the links coming to your PDF are negative links coming from a website you don’t want to be affiliated with. Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Add Campaign name and any other parameter (optional): Add the name of the campaign to differentiate between the different creatives you are running with that specific owned media source. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. That limits your ability to do roll-up and drill-down reporting.