Tag Name: External Link Tracking » GA Universal Tag Type: Google Universal Analytics Web Property ID: Your Google Universal Analytics UA id Event Type: Event Event Tracking Parameters Category: External Links Action: {{element url}} Label: {{element text}} Value: 1 Non-Interaction Hit: True Firing Rules Links - External Conditions {{event}} equals gtm.linkClick {{element url}} does not match RegEx (ignore case) ^/[^/] {{element url}} does not match RegEx (ignore case) ^[\w:]*//(www\.)?searchsignals\.com You can always rename the category and change the order of the label and action if you want to see it differently in the default Google Analytics view. However, if you log into goo.gl and ask for a short URL, goo.gl will generate a unique short URL, even if someone else already requested a link to the same website. Real time link editing means a quick edit is all it takes to instantly shift customers to a new landing page. Don’t worry so much about the whole base64 thing though.
But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Use this example as a model for your own links: Check out example.com Analytics Events Was this article helpful? Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks.
Can generate transcribable short links in printed brochures for publicity events. Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. For example, if your source is "newsletter", the medium should not be "email newsletter". Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). Facebook has this new colored status background feature that works when your status is short and straight to the point.
We can detect whether a link will open a page on a domain which is different to ours. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above.
With a free account, your links are good for 7 days or 100 clicks. 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. Outbound links are the links which take visitors from your website to some other site on the web. In other words, www is arbitrary and no different than any other subdomain. Google has possibly started this process for you but the tracking code must be updated on your website pages. In the sidebar click on Content » Events » Top Events. I don’t know about you, but anytime you want to switch from Bitly for other alternative, you can refer to the following list. Google's URL builder lets you manually add custom analytics parameters to a website URL.