Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 359: + Added feature: include title when posting to Twitter/StatusNet Thanks. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. 1 billion times.[1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address. Autotrack uses events to track outbound link clicks and sets the event label to the link's URL. When storing unique values from an affiliate's tracking system, use a combination of the following parameters: aff_click_id aff_unique1 aff_unique2 aff_unique3 aff_unique4 aff_unique5 You can use up to one click ID parameter and five unique value parameters, each of which appear in your conversion report and event tracer.
It gives us profound insights about the media battle through social sites. 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? Creating the External Link Tracker The last step is to send the link click event, along with the anchor text and URL, to Google Universal Analytics. Launch and use Now that you're all set up, you're ready to use your new URL shortener. Requests to the Google URL Shortener API for non-public user data must be authorized by an authenticated user. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system.
Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. Here’s how to optimize your conversion rate, so you can make sure your promotional efforts pay off in actual ticket sales — not just pageviews. If it contains any query strings such as ? & = then it is a dynamic URL. eg: 357&sort=date (Note also that blank spaces are never allowed in a web address).
Here's an example of a URL that can be set as the custom click macro for an offer: {redirect} On click, the {redirect} macro in the above URL is replaced with the HasOffers tracking link for the offer: Custom Transaction IDs Before using the parameter for custom transaction ID, contact your account manager or our support team to enable the feature for your network. This code defines the tracking action and delays loading of the outbound link by 100 milliseconds so that Google Analytics can track the click: Insert this code in addition to the standard Google Analytics tracking code for the page. Join 250,000 in-the-know marketers and get the latest marketing tips, tactics, and news right in your inbox. Launch your Web browser and go to the Web page for your preferred URL shortening service. Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option.
There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. 2Planning your tracker structure In this section, we’ll discuss how to plan and organise your sources. If you are trying to make a quick buck on your visitors I suggest this site. 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. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Public API tny.im has a public API that allows developers to integrate this service with their websites and applications. UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create.