That in mind, if it bothers you to have public analytics on your short links, don't use goo.gl! In this article we’ll discover how to add outbound link tracking.
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. If you use an affiliate plugin to format your affiliate links into something like this then you will have to enable tracking of internal links as outbound links. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways. If it’s an outbound link, we’ll cancel the click event and initiate Analytics event tracking. You're probably using Google for other things, so why not keep all your data where you can find it and use your existing Google Account? You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar.
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