We recommend choosing only one type of Google Analytics tracking. For each time slice, shortUrlClicks and longUrlClicks should be present, but the rest may not be (e.g. if there were no clicks). Use Custom Short URLs in my books and newsletters to encourage trust and build brand loyalty with fans. On the Setup step, provide a title for the email in the Google Analytics title for email field.
This count includes multiple clicks from individual recipients. The macro below will allow you to grab just the hostname from the outbound URL. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. 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. Twitter is one social media platform that can make you learn how to be patient and humble.
A summary of this traffic is found in your Google Analytics reporting under Traffic Sources. For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es".
Click Trackers, select NEW TRACKER and the Adjust Tracker Wizard will open up. Add Campaign name and any other parameter (optional): Add the name of the campaign to differentiate between the different creatives you are running with that specific owned media source.
Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.
If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there. Short links are not pages on our site, they are stored in a database that robots have no general access to. Turn Click Tracking On or Off For compliance reasons, click tracking is required in all free accounts and new paid accounts. 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. 1 billion times.[1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address.
Check Validation: Also optional, but this just makes sure the user “really” clicked on the link. Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. This results in registration of different URL shorteners with a myriad of different countries, leaving no relation between the country where the domain has been registered and the URL shortener itself or the shortened links. In the Settings & Tracking section of the Campaign Builder, check the box next to Google Analytics link tracking.