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. It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links. In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc. Macro Name: element text Macro Type: Custom JavaScript Custom Javascript: The .textContent property is built into most browsers which is nice, but you can always adapt the macro to use innerHTML or innerText depending on your needs. A few well-known websites have set up their own URL shortening services for their own use – for example, Twitter with t.co, and Google with goo.gl. Export your data to Excel, text, PDF or XML for paid accounts.
Some job applications may also ask you for your LinkedIn profile URL. As my day commenced I started to realize that I was getting smarter by the minute. Tracking ID You can either manually type your unique Google Analytics ID into this field (ex: UA-########-1) or use a convenient macro that plugs this in for you. From there, you can click Export as CSV to download a list of contacts for each link result.
URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways. Therefore, if a link source is moved to a FAT file system volume the tracking information is lost.
For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 7 Dec 2012 More Thanks. This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. Creating the Link Click Listener The Link Click Listener tag allows you to capture user click events on all or specific targeted links.
Customizable links Custom keywords, titles, limits on clicks and availability, you name it: make your short links as you like and change their settings at any time. Transnational law[edit] Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint. 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. Is there more than one type of Google Analytics tracking on your links? If you combine MailChimp's Google Analytics tracking with custom UTM tracking, this could skew results in reports. If you have a large Twitter following, tweeting a link to your followers is a surefire way of getting many views.