Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. An easier way to get to this website will be to copy/paste smallseotools.com/link-tracker in your search browser. Tracking ID You can either manually type your unique Google Analytics ID into this field (ex: UA-########-1) or use a convenient macro that plugs this in for you. It took me a while to realize all the features Bitly has to offer, and now it’s my favorite go-to page for when I need to share links with a little style. This tool is especially useful if you want to detect click-fraud, see real-time click stats, and measure social media traffic. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 21 May 2011 More Version 0. For example, you may not have more than 10,000 different values of creative for a particular tracker. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. If you have a large Twitter following, tweeting a link to your followers is a surefire way of getting many views. For example, your website has fifteen content pages.
URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API. If you have a link domain enabled, wait to enable HSTS until after you have uploaded this certificate for your link domain. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting. Within this tab, you can also search locations, referral tweets, and popular tweets shared.
With TinyURL, you can actually customize the end letters and numbers as an option. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks. I'm sure there are also better ways this can be done, so if you have your own way of doing it please leave me some comments below!Earlier, we wrote about how to install Google Analytics in WordPress, and we have received tons of questions from our users. Short URLs, for example, will be subject to linkrot if the shortening service stops working; all URLs related to the service will become broken. You have to create an account to track all these reports.
Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. Once implemented, visit your site and click a few outbound links. Google Analytics doesn’t “listen” for link click events by default, so that’s why we have to go the extra work of creating a link click listener tag. Entering unique values into aff_sub or source parameters is a common cause of sluggish reporting. In the Link Track Vars box, type the Adobe Analytics variables that you want to send to Adobe Analytics when links are clicked. Easily manage multiple brands and business lines from one Tinycc account. One of the more common problems is skewing content report data.