A good baseline is to expect at least a few dozen users on any given tracker. Before you move on, let me let you know that twitter blocks a lot of link shortening services and has since flag them negatively.
Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 7 Dec 2012 More Thanks. Facebook automatically detects the link and parses the page description and an image from the original page. Similarly, if you assign traffic to a certain campaign but with an unknown adgroup, and later on add adgroup attributions, the traffic up until then will be shown as unknown. Tracking Links to your PDF Using Open Site Explorer you can take the full URL of your PDF and drop it directly into the search bar and click search. In the sidebar click on Content » Events » Top Events.
What Link Shorteners Do (And Don’t Do) Link shorteners were originally created to address stubborn email systems that wrapped an email after 80 characters and broke any long URLs that might have been in the message. Publish one custom branded short link on my business card, then keep the destination URL updated so that people are always taken to my latest blog post when they visit.
Some URL shortening service providers have found themselves on spam blacklists, because of the use of their redirect services by sites trying to bypass those very same blacklists. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it. Backlinks are followed by Google's robot to check if it’s a valid link.
For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default. Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements. The Link Tracking Configuration properties enable you to specify Adobe Analytics events and variables to track when link clicks occur. Once you click the share link, in addition to the social networking services you should see the URL of the video that can be copied and pasted anywhere. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. In order to form the key, a hash function can be made, or a random number generated so that key sequence is not predictable.