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. Because we’re creating an event to track clicks on a specific type of link! But I find this to be in the common order of usage for my own needs.
You can use Analytics Events to track clicks on links that take users to a website other than your own. Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first. A circumvention could be that a website provided its own shortlinks instead of relying on a third-party shortening service – but this is not common. When a request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is searched for an associated URL.
The website is just as basic it was when it launched, but it does the deed. Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button. You don’t have to be a major corporation to set up a custom short name domain to create custom short links.
Well in this article, we will show you how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics. Generate an Impression Pixel To track impressions for an offer, copy the code in the Impression Pixel box and place it on the same page as your tracking link. Take a look at your social media feeds and you’ll see that link shortening has really caught on as a practice.
This is compatible with most web browsers and platforms as long as your bookmarks or favorites allow javascript. In this case, no further subtrackers will be created for that group, and you will be notified immediately. For example, a standard tracking link like: shortens to something like: You can also append unencrypted parameters to a shortened URL. If the title is not available you can manually add it. Some websites allow other websites to create links. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly.