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. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. Google has possibly started this process for you but the tracking code must be updated on your website pages. Custom Variables If using the affiliate sub IDs and source values are insufficient for passing through values on click to the landing page, you can set up custom variables to use in the offer URL and tracking link.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 24 Jun 2011 More Firefox Vision Statement Thanks. For example, say you are using UTM codes to track website traffic. Tracker URLs Tracker URL refers to the entire link, complete with domain and query string.
See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. Tracking Opened Emails Companies running email campaigns often want to be able to track how many times their emails were opened. Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. If your website has WordPress installed in a directory, your options might look like this, where our blog is installed in the “blog” directory: If your website is your WordPress installation, it might look like this: This works best when you choose a page slug that is short and mindful of keywords.
I can even include retargeting (remarketing) in the same link. 5Redirecting users to landing pages or in-app locations Trackers can be modified to redirect users to locations other than the app store, while still tracking conversions.
An example Turn this URL: X0DER&pf_rd_s=center-10&pf_rd_r=11EYKTN682A79T370AM3&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1270985982&pf_rd_i=B002Y27P3M into this TinyURL: Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? Tip: The Google APIs client libraries can handle some of the authorization process for you. If you are trying to make a quick buck on your visitors I suggest this site. If you leave a middle-rank parameter empty, we still use the data in your lower-level parameters. Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now. My inbox was transformed into a hyper-aware entity. This is compatible with most web browsers and platforms as long as your bookmarks or favorites allow javascript. Bitly will download and add a thumbnail photo and the title for each link in the bundle. Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine! Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. For example, here's what is returned if you call the shorten method without specifying a long URL: { "error": { "errors": [ { "domain": "global", "reason": "required", "message": "Required", "locationType": "parameter", "location": "resource.longUrl" } ], "code": 400, "message": "Required" } } reason specifies the error reason.