A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. Now, it’s easy to set up tracking for almost any type of link click, without a dev needing to add custom code. (Caveat: in certain cases, you may need some additional dev help, but this post focuses on the simplest types of implementations.) STEP 0: Make Sure You’re Using GTM 🙂 First, ensure you’ve got Google Tag Manager configured and working on your website. You may also right-click any highlighted section and choose Paste from the drop-down menu. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 19 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 19, 2011 Thanks. Here are 5 URL Shorteners that I actively use: Bitly: This website allows you to create an unlimited amount of bitlinks, which come with analytics and tracking.
For example, if you send out weekly newsletters, this might be "newsletter". You can then create tags that wait for the gtm.linkClick event to happen, and perform additional tasks (like the external link tracker tag described below). note: There are a number of tagging strategies.
Short.cm also provides an API for developers and Google Chrome extension for better experience. So in the next few pages, you will learn how to shorten links for Twitter. To shorten links for Twitter, you don’t need to do too much techy stuff.
Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable. The SEO issue isn’t an issue, according to Google’s Matt Cutts.
The way out is just the answer to the title of this post. Yes No false Google Analytics training and support resources Check out our comprehensive list to learn more about Analytics solutions.You can make an unlimited number of links with any account - including the free one. Use custom domains to multiply click-throughs and increase the public's awareness of my brands. Like open tracking, it can help measure subscriber engagement. 1 billion times.[12] Around that time, bit.ly and TinyURL were the most widely used URL-shortening services.[12] One service, tr.im, stopped generating short URLs in 2009, blaming a lack of revenue-generating mechanisms to cover costs and Twitter's default use of the bit.ly shortener, and questioning whether other shortening services could be profitable from URL shortening in the longer term.[13] It resumed for a time,[14] then closed. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. If you are trying to make a quick buck on your visitors I suggest this site.