Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. For example, say you are using UTM codes to track website traffic.
The link subdomain does not support https out of the box. This can break your links and disable the tracking if these are not accepted by your website. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future.
It appears to be written in something like base64. All of these things should be clearly stipulated for tags you will be setting up: There are a variety of approaches you can take to naming tags, categories, labels, firing rules, and more. Well in this article, we will show you how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics. Tagging your emails like this will give insight into how your emails compare to other types of marketing, how specific messages work across all mediums, which types of links work best in your emails, etc.
For more information about OLE links, see IOleLink. In the background, Analytics sends data by requesting an image beacon. If a URL with missing protocol is submitted in a browser address bar the http:// is automatically assumed.
Check Validation: Also optional, but this just makes sure the user “really” clicked on the link. In choosing a source, think in terms of broad categories so that you can do roll-up reports for each type of email. Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. The general idea people have about Google Analytics is that it tells you how many vistors and pageviews you are getting, where the traffic is coming from, and what content is popular on your website. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs. Whenever you paste a link into Buffer to be scheduled to post at a later time, it automatically shortens the link for you. Because plain-text campaigns don't use hyperlinks to hide MailChimp's tracking information, subscribers who view your plain-text campaigns will see the full tracking URLs.