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. 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.
These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. We will show you how you can enable automatic tracking of all outbound links in Google Analytics with WordPress.
TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. You can access detailed campaign click stats from the report Overview, the Click Performance, and the Clicked pages in the campaign report. Abbreviate or shorten: Use common abbreviations to make things shorter or just chop off some letters of your name.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call.
Type any message that you want to add to the link into the text input field. For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Every single email address links contains mailto: so this firing rule ensures that this tag only fires on clicks where links are “mailto” type email addresses. This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. If you need to change your URL on your social network page, it's easy to do.) Bitly Bitly is at the top of the URL shortening game. Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. It does not allow for a custom domain at this time. The Apple App Site Association File is not required. Example: Nissan uses nssn.co Use initials: This tip works for personal or organization URL shorteners. If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values. A link shortening service is a middleman, serving up a link that sits between your user and the end result.