Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. Go to the homepage of the URL shortening service that you used in the first step. The permalinks you use in WordPress can be ideally created to be as short as possible. To send the results to other people, enter their email addresses in the CC field.
Complete control over which campaigns our clients can see in their accounts. Bitly may be the authoritative champ of URL shorteners in the Twitterverse (before t.co / Twitter was propelled a year ago), however Redirecting has analytics covered.
When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way. As they say on their website, ClickMagick is a tracking software tool that allows you to Track And Optimize All Your Marketing, All In One Place. These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case).
But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. You can, of course, freely rename your tracker as long as it stays at that level.
Clicked Number of recipients who clicked any tracked link. Adjust uses them in two ways: firstly, to provide a link to your app; and, secondly, to segment your users so that they may be analyzed. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data. From Google Event Tracking Guide Event Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system. Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. For example, to shorten the URL , send the following request: POST Content-Type: application/json {"longUrl": ""} For instance, you could issue the following curl command: curl \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"longUrl": ""}' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "" } id is the short URL that expands to the long URL you provided. You rely on this provider to keep your link viable into the future. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. 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. Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine! Free users can choose between “go.clickmeter.com“ or “9nl.com“ as a domain name for their tracking link, while pro users can choose their own domain name. 1 billion times.[1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 12 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 12, 2011 Thanks.