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. Outbound links are the links which take visitors from your website to some other site on the web. Also, you can choose the redirect type of your link, depending on whether you plan on changing your destination URL in the future. Instead of posting the "pretty" URL, you can shorten it by removing the "www." and using the post ID in the URL (e.g. "?p=1204").
That’s a lot of back and forth just to get me a a web page. Tip: Storing unique values in the appropriate parameters can drastically improve report performance.
The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover. When we shorten a link, it appears like so: Our URLs are shortened and we can still use the tracking features in Bit.ly, but instead of our readers seeing Bit.ly in the shortened links, they see our custom domain.
Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 17 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 17, 2011 Thanks. So in the next few pages, you will learn how to shorten links for Twitter. To shorten links for Twitter, you don’t need to do too much techy stuff. Create one tracker for each platform, and create the multi-platform tracker like so: Any clicks from iPhones, iPads and so on will be sent to the iTunes App Store, and those clicks will be counted and shown toward your iOS tracker.
Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button. You can reverse the order to send those devices to Google Play. Given the choice between spending time and money to find a different home, or just giving up, the latter won out.[22] Google's url-shortener discussion group has frequently included messages from frustrated users reporting that specific shortened URLs have been disabled after they were reported as spam.[23] A study in May 2012 showed that 61% of URL shorteners had shut down (614 of 1002).[24] The most common cause cited was abuse by spammers. 5Creating very large sets of subtrackers As discussed, best practice use of Campaign Structure Parameters is for analytics purposes, meaning that you should have groups of a meaningful size at all times. Once you click the share link, in addition to the social networking services you should see the URL of the video that can be copied and pasted anywhere. But, the good news is, the one I am gonna share below is as secure as possible. Find the unsubscribe link in your campaign, right click, and copy the link address. Instead, they create a “tracking link” that will act as a redirect to the actual landing page or website URL. One of the most commonly asked question was how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics?