URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways. Link shortening adds another of redirection to an “already creaky system“, according to Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. For example, links that point to a page on will rewritten with any available link subdomain sharing that domain (e.g. ).
Set a custom 404 URL so both search engines and visitors are sent to valid pages on my site when trying to follow any link that doesn't exist. That’s a lot of back and forth just to get me a a web page. Use remarketing links to repeatedly get my brands in front of interested eyeballs.
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. Maybe, the footer bar and the after post banner is working the best, but your sidebar ad is not.
If your organization has multiple people shortening links and posting them, be sure to provide access and training to everyone involved. Upload the certificate and its corresponding key.
Once implemented, visit your site and click a few outbound links. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks). As an example, their tracking system could have a session ID macro that you use to replace "CLICKID", and another macro for a unique user hash that you use to replace "UNIQUEVALUE". That fact makes it easy to use only, in online profiles and anywhere else that you want to put a link and track it.