The Click Map shows you a visual representation of how each link performed in your campaign. If you’re setting up a new property, Google Analytics requires you to enter the following: • Website Name: Enter a custom name for the property.
Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. The application may also provide the API key, but it doesn't have to. The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
In general, don't remove vowels at the beginning of words, though. Some folks might already be fully familiar with the process of URL shortening, providing a shorter and sometimes more memorable URL that is easier for someone to type out or include in an email or other short message.
Look up a short URL's analytics To look up a short URL's analytics, issue an expand request, adding a parameter to ask for additional details. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results.
Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. The following example code represents the default download tracking configuration: s.trackDownloadLinks= true; s.linkDownloadFileTypes= 'exe,zip,wav,mp3,mov,mpg,avi,wmv,doc,pdf,xls'; Use the following procedure to enable download tracking for your Adobe Analytics framework: Open the SiteCatalyst framework and expand the Link Tracking Configuration section. To learn more, read Troubleshooting Click Tracking. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 5 Dec 2012 More When to sell a name you make actually use. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL. Once Twitter (and other social media) took off and introduced the 140-character limit, that shortened link became even more important. Here is what the firing rules look like for this tag:Event Equals gtm.linkClick: You will want to use this rule for ANY and ALL link click events. Enter data in the required fields and click 'Track Now.' This utility will display the URL, and if it is indexed by search engines and its PR value. We wanted to see: A) How many page views the PDFs were getting B) How long people were staying on these PDFs C) How prone they were to bouncing (just in case we needed to redesign them) D) The links we were getting to the PDFs E) Where those links were coming from The solution was pretty simple. If your organization has multiple people shortening links and posting them, be sure to provide access and training to everyone involved. Using them ensures all parameters on the tracking link are transferred and parsed correctly for all platforms, browsers and scenarios. It's possible to shorten regular custom links or OneLink URLs: Shorten Regular Custom Link You can use as many parameters as you'd like on a tracking link and use Shorten Link to convert the link to a short one. To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. Its popularity influenced the creation of at least 100 similar websites,[9] although most are simply domain alternatives.