Let us know what you think of Bitly.com and other similar sites. ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand? Here are some guidelines: Campaign Name This field should contain some of the most specific information about what kind of email this is. The reason for this is because cookies cannot be set cross-domain, and pageviews, interest data and campaign-specific purchase attribution would not function. The first condition allows this tag to just wait until it sees a link click event, which is the gtm.linkClick event that we were listening for above. Link Tracker Keeping track of the links to a website can be quite a tedious task especially if you decide to check every link to your site.
However, if you do this then you'll miss out on transaction data being sent to Google Analytics. In the “Auto-Append Link Parameters” field write the new or current parameter with its respective value, such as utm_medium=MorningEmail You can turn on this setting independent of the Link Tracking setting. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Set Your Own Expiration Dates Want your links to automatically expire on a specific date?
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Once the address is copied, paste that address into another program by clicking a blank field and pressing Ctrl+V or Cmd+V. There’s no default macro that allows you to get the anchor text of the link, so we’ll create a custom Javascript macro to easily do this. Bitly searches its database for the key UOLsVl and, if it finds that key in its database, it automatically redirects the browser to the associated web page, in this case . Once you are sure that your WordPress site does not have Google Analytics code, go to Settings » Google Analytics. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing.
The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around. In order for this to be enabled, you must integrate with App Indexing for Android and iOS. So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful. The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
If the link you are interested in is long (more than 60 characters), copy and paste the URL into a web page that creates a short link. If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there. In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc. The link tracking services are exposed by the IShellLink and IOleLink interfaces. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey.