I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them. Manage smarter with reports and data at your fingertips. Conversion Tracking Try a Professional account to track sales, email signups, page visits and more with our easy to use conversion tracking option. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 29 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 29, 2011 Thanks. Go to my.sailthru.com/pages and click a link to a hosted page. Doing so generates a tracking link unique to that publisher and offer: What is generated looks something like this: Each part of the affiliate tracking link helps our ad server determine what to do with the traffic when a user follows the link: demo.go2cloud.org - This is the tracking domain of your network, using the provided go2cloud.org domain. aff_c - This part after the domain tells the ad server that this user is clicking through, as opposed to a conversion or impression. offer_id=1001 - In HasOffers, each offer is given an ID number, which is used to connect the click session to the rest of an offer's information. aff_id=2002 - The affiliate ID tells HasOffers which publisher receives credit for the click and the conversion (if the user converts).
Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words.
By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do. With that in mind, we need to cover two things: Keeping track of users when they move from your website to Eventbrite (called cross-domain tracking), and Setting up Google Analytics to collect data about ticket purchases on Eventbrite Let's get into it… Prerequisites Before you can get this to work, you're going to need to make sure you have two things in place. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. The ad tag includes the affiliate tracking link and corresponding impression pixel for display banners types so impressions can be tracked right away. When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. If you're comfortable with Web hosting and setting up simple PHP and mySQL applications, there are several free scripts you can use to set up a URL shortener on your own server, giving you much more control.
In the sidebar click on Content » Events » Top Events. Click the owl head in the upper-left corner of the screen. By doing this, they can centralize all their landing pages in one tracking application, and make changes instantly without having to go back to the websites or pages. The more clicks you get on your AdF.ly links, the more money you earn. In the background, Analytics sends data by requesting an image beacon.
Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand? For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". The external link tracking properties are implemented as code in the analytics.sitecatalyst.js file that is generated for a page. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. To add this logic to your attribution funnel, simply append engagement_type=fallback_click to your tracker URL. The tracking mechanisms employed are typically first-party cookies and web bugs. Owned Media email and SMS campaigns, web site banners and landing pages, viral posts on social media or even QR codes on physical posters. In those cases, you can add the following parameters to your affiliate tracking link for your publisher to provide more data: Source & Affiliate Sub IDs Some of the most commonly used parameters are the traffic source and affiliate sub ID parameters: source aff_sub aff_sub2 aff_sub3 aff_sub4 aff_sub5 These parameters are used to store non-unique session information from the affiliate’s tracking system that they want passed back on conversion. This is a great solution if your landing page is an actual URL your contacts will be visiting. Check the Enable OneLink box - the custom URL changes to OneLink Note The link is automatically multi-platform enabled.