Simplify your planning and set yourself up for success. Whatever the case, the answer seems to be using a link shortener. On your profile page, click Edit your public profile in the right rail. Please see Google’s help page on Custom Campaigns for more information. If these names are duplicated it can affect your attribution data's integrity as installs from your owned media are attributed to integrated partners.
The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. ClickMeter is used by several thousand of happy affiliates and work with hundreds of affiliate programs. Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS.
Boom, ka-bang, you can now see your PDF's Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Avg. I'm sure there are also better ways this can be done, so if you have your own way of doing it please leave me some comments below!Add JavaScript code within the tags of each page where you want to track affiliate links.
Using a custom domain with your link shortening service is a way to confront the spam and distrust issue. On that page, set Specify payout on click to "Enabled" and click Save once you're finished. The improvements include the following procedure that depends on time limits imposed by an client application.
Reports are availabe in .csv format for use with Microsoft Excel or your favorite spreadsheet program. It's only one of the most popular social media management tools currently out there! This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress. Additionally, I want to make sure that if I have to exclude my domain as part of a tracking parameter in an external URL, that I don’t accidently exclude that click from being tracked. note: If you have both GA Universal and GA Classic running on the same site, you’ll have to create 2 separate External Link Trackers. 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. Note: Not all website UTM parameters work properly with Google Analytics. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. With any premium account, you get complete control over lots of configurable options, all in one place. In order to get your domain short enough to be effective as a URL shortener, you may want to consider these tips: Removing vowels: This is an effective way to shortener your organization's name and still making it easy to understand.