Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. Determines unique and non-unique click distribution. When a user clicks on a link that is being listened to, Google Tag Manager fires off a gtm.linkClick event. If you're driving internal pay-per-click traffic and want to pass the cost per click through the tracking link, you can use the following parameter: payout To enable this feature, go to Company > Customize Application > Settings > Tracking. Click Macro Redirect You can specify a custom click macro by first enabling the offer tracking setting, and then passing in a URL using the following parameter: redirect For this parameter, you can include either the {redirect} or {eredirect} macro to track your clicks in another tracking system.
We can also store your Google Analytics ID to track visits to your campaign pages and hosted campaign archive, so you can see traffic to these pages in your Google Analytics account. 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.
Element URL contains mailto: This is where the firing rules are truly specific to tracking clicks on email addresses. A summary of this traffic is found in your Google Analytics reporting under Traffic Sources.
You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. Click the Shorten button, and voila your long URL is shortened and ready for you to use. Whenever you post a link for a piece of content you are pushing out through Buffer it will create a shorter link that you are able to track and manage. Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period. Without taking this step, visits from emails will be recorded inconsistently.
Under Tracking, click the Google Analytics link tracking box. In the sidebar click on Content » Events » Top Events. You can also add a “bitly sidebar” to your browser. In some cases, the political or cultural aspects of the country in charge of the top-level domain may become an issue for users and owners,[4] but this is not usually the case. Some countries place restrictions on who can register domains with its country TLD — though this is becoming less and less common as countries realize the revenue opportunities from selling domains worldwide.