Perhaps, you can try improving your ad and then do A/B testing. In this article: Using Google Tag Manager If you use Google Tag Manager to manage your Analytics tracking, follow the instructions in Analytics Events to implement events. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. In addition to creating short URL versions in the sidebar, you can get personalized stats about your Bitly links, create Tweets right from within the sidebar, and see who is linking to your URL on Twitter, FriendFeed and blog comments. One new and creative way to use a domain that is quickly gaining in popularity is using a domain like . If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar.
If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. Troubleshooting Consider these possibilities if you see behavior you don't expect. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. Click outside the box to update your generated tracking link.
Click the Shorten button, and voila your long URL is shortened and ready for you to use. The process must be fast, not handle clicks which have been deactivated by other processes and ensure links work even if the Analytics event fails. You can copy the resulting bit.ly link and use it in your tweets, in your e-mail, or even on your website. Before you send your campaign, make a note of these unique IDs so you'll know which Google Analytics title goes with which combination of your campaign.
You need to make sure tag manager associates the event with this tag. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content.
When you check the box to enable tracking, we'll show the campaign title as it will appear in your Google Analytics account after the campaign is sent. Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 21 May 2011 More Version 0. If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there. There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff. This will allow you to plan your content strategy accordingly. With that said, if you do need to track your URLs, or you want alternative ways to post there are plenty of ways to do it: Bit.ly: Probably the most popular URL shortener for Twitter because it was one of the first to let you track your tiny URLs. Creative Files When creative files have been added to an offer, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional item labeled Creative. When you select a creative file from the dropdown menu, your tracking link is appended with the following parameter: file_id This parameter also appears in the standalone tracking link to track the performance of the creative in the stats reports: Deep Links If you have the custom deep link feature enabled for an offer, you can set a custom redirect URL to use instead of using one of the existing landing page URLs set in the offer already. If you are using the newer Universal tracking please refer to the docs. Have you tested the Google Analytics URL parameters? Bitly is known as one of the pioneers of URL shortener.