But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links.
And a status code is one piece of information exchanged through a header. You’ll play a “prove you’re human” game before your shortened link is produced. From Google Event Tracking Guide Event Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. However, you need to be aware that all Goo.gl URLs, as well as click analytics are public. The disconnection of the server caused us serious problems, and to be honest, the level and nature of the abuse has become quite demoralizing.
This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. Look up a short URL's analytics To look up a short URL's analytics, issue an expand request, adding a parameter to ask for additional details. Element URL contains mailto: This is where the firing rules are truly specific to tracking clicks on email addresses. URL shorteners typically work by redirecting users using a special server response commonly referred to as a "301." This tells the browser that the resource at your short URL has been permenantly moved to the full URL's location. When you check the box to enable tracking, we'll show the campaign title as it will appear in your Google Analytics account after the campaign is sent. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam.
Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. Go to Admin > Edit Posts, hover over the post link, look at the status bar, the number at the end of the URL is the post ID. Note that requests containing JSON content bodies must be accompanied by a Content-Type: application/json request header. Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. Owned Media email and SMS campaigns, web site banners and landing pages, viral posts on social media or even QR codes on physical posters. Examples of this are rickrolling, redirecting to shock sites, or to affiliate websites. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. Once you’ve pressed this, you’ll be brought to the URL Forwarding page. A common example of this is when publishers want to pre-populate a lead generation form with user contact information to help improve conversion rates. 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.