Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Automatically route users to the location they're most likely to purchase the products you're promoting while gathering deep insights into your marketing campaigns.
Campaign Source Campaign source for an email should not be "email". Abuse[edit] URL shortening may be utilized by spammers or for illicit internet activities. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
While this solution might not compete with the extremely short URLs that link shortening services can provide (and without the equivalent analytics packages), it would avoid the link shortening middleman and let your user know at a glance where your link will take them. — Is link shortening for you? Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics?
Shortening links for Twitter simply means reducing its length and at the same time, it still works correctly. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. This tool is especially useful if you want to detect click-fraud, see real-time click stats, and measure social media traffic. While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and constraints) of Twitter, I question their sustainability as a business. This data is useful in aggregate to determine the response to your emails, including attributing purchases to sends, and also at the individual level to determine a user’s engagement and interaction with Lifecycle Optimizer rules and Audience Builder filters.
You can copy/paste the backlink URLs that you want to check from your website. View Click Tracking Reports Click tracking tells you how your contacts interact with your content and whether they want to visit the destination URLs in your campaign. It's just not possible for us to pick up and maintain the Client ID in the same way. Click rate Percentage of total recipients who clicked any tracked link in the campaign. Don't use spaces, symbols, or special characters. We then redirect the user to the destination URL. This tool is especially useful if you want to detect click-fraud, see real-time click stats, and measure social media traffic. Ow.ly is a link shortening option that is part of the Hootsuite service. AdFly: Another interesting shortener is AdFly, because it allows you to monetize on your URL shortener. We can detect whether a link will open a page on a domain which is different to ours. In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc.