Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Some offer features that go beyond a basic link shortener.
We sometimes experience products selling out suddenly in the middle of a large campaign. If you are permitting other websites to create links to your site, then you need to monitor the links to your site. When users recommend web pages to each other, email and bookmarking sites are second only to search engines. • URLs greater than 78 characters long will usually wrap across a line feed, increasing likelihood of breaking.
If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values. It allows for custom domains so you can brand your shortened link. 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 a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. At that time, Google will completely disable the URL shortener and all associated data will be lost.
Before You Start Click tracking is enabled in all MailChimp campaigns by default, and is required in all free accounts and new paid accounts. Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover.
Links can usually be maintained when the link source is moved to another computer, but this form of tracking is less reliable over time. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. For example, your website has fifteen content pages. They wanted to track users and collect transaction data so they could calculate the effectiveness of their marketing activity. You may think it is a complicated thing to get but it is actually quite simple to set up and cheap too. If everything is set up correctly in Google Analytics, a record of this visit should appear in your Google Analytics account. This will help you give more time-oriented outreach to people who have recently pointed to your resources, these are the most apt to engage. This total includes clicks on other occurrences of this link on this module.