For detailed information about flows for various types of applications, see Google's OAuth 2. They never place a “naked” link on any other website, especially is its an affiliate link. 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). If it’s an outbound link, we’ll cancel the click event and initiate Analytics event tracking. Did you set a link to a file instead of a page on your website? Some went to the extent of buying spam links which were being openly sold on the internet.
There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. But otherwise, the free account is useful enough for comprehensive link tracking.
If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. After the address has been highlighted, press Ctrl+C or Cmd+C on the keyboard to copy it.
Creating the External Link Tracker The last step is to send the link click event, along with the anchor text and URL, to Google Universal Analytics. You can safely preview a short link by adding ~ or = to the end of the URL, for instance: Bookmarklets Shorten and share any page at the click of a bookmark, without installing extensions or apps.
By tracking those links, you can find which one is working the best. If done properly you should have "" on the above box. The network shares on the link source computer are changed. Short links are not pages on our site, they are stored in a database that robots have no general access to. Adding tracking directly to your site If you have added the Analytics tracking code directly to your site, you can copy and paste the script below into your own pages to set up Event tracking for outbound links. Use short links with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons for asset tracking and proximity marketing. Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. For example: - campaign-level tracker {publisher_id} - campaign-level tracker with creative, but not adgroup data In this case, your data will be assigned to the campaign and tracker with an unknown adgroup.