You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet. They can hide their nefarious links in a shortened URL meaning people either clicked on the links and quickly learned to either never trust a shortened link, or to always use a link extraction site (e.g. WhereDoesThisLinkGo) to see where the shortened link actually went before they clicked.
This is for example useful if you want to redirect to your website, and inject UTM tracking data, or if you redirect to another system that can use source data from Adjust. It is more focused on what happens once a visitor comes to your site.Email tracking is a method for monitoring the email delivery to the intended recipient. If you already have Google Analytics code inserted in to your WordPress blog, remove that code. 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. My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly.
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. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. If you have a large Twitter following, tweeting a link to your followers is a surefire way of getting many views.
Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? You need an Admin user level or higher to connect this integration. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service. Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics.
Also, a custom domain might improve the amount of clicks your link receives. According to RadiumOne, URL shorteners that offer vanity domains can increase sharing up to 25 percent. The solution… We’ll attach a click event handler to the body element. The download tracking properties of the framework are implemented as code in the analytics.sitecatalyst.js file that is generated for a page. Open the Universal Links settings page in My Sailthru under Setup > Universal Links. Check back later to see the statistics on how your link did. For example, if a shell shortcut is created to link to a text document, the text document is the link source, and the shell shortcut is the link client. Facebook has this new colored status background feature that works when your status is short and straight to the point. A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL.