You can now return to the URL shortening service’s homepage at any time to view click stats for the link you posted to your Facebook wall. When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface.
There are both Eventbrite-generated tracking links (left) as well as tracking links I can create on my own (right). Boom, ka-bang, you can now see your PDF's Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Avg.
When the user leaves your website and goes to the eventbrite.com domain, Google Analytics assigns them a new client ID. You’ll want to choose one that uses a 301 redirect for certain. Without taking this step, visits from emails will be recorded inconsistently. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website.
For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. The macro below will allow you to grab just the hostname from the outbound URL. The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.Welcome to TinyURL!™ Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Using it for spamming or illegal purposes is forbidden and any such use will result in the TinyURL being disabled and you may be reported to all ISPs involved and to the proper governmental agencies. If you’re already familiar with this, feel free to skip right to Campaign Structure Parameters.
Click alert emails contain vital tracking information and can help you follow up on hot leads, gauge your marketing campaigns, or prompt you to check your affiliate statistics. For example: Services Brochure In the above URL we’ve added the parameter “?pdf=Services-Brochure” to the end of the PDF URL link. The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.Own Your Short Links on Twitter bit.ly offers URL shortening and link tracking services. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You may also right-click any highlighted section and choose Paste from the drop-down menu. Do E-Commerce and Analytics360 data figures not match on your campaign report? Due to the differences in Google Analytics and MailChimp tracking, it's normal for Analytics360 and E-Commerce revenue figures to vary. Services that don’t do this can end up being blacklisted on major websites which won’t allow links from such services to be displayed.