First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co. Next, you need to add a trigger to fire the tag on. STEP 2: Create Tags for Tracking Individual Links You can create tags to track lots of different link clicks: – Email addresses – PDF and file downloads – Social media profiles – All external links, or – Just the most *important* external links – Important calls to action (ex: “Register Now”) – Etc., etc…. If you find someone who says he or she loves social media but doesn’t have a twitter account, then that person just likes social media.
There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination. In this article: Using Google Tag Manager If you use Google Tag Manager to manage your Analytics tracking, follow the instructions in Analytics Events to implement events. Free users can choose between “go.clickmeter.com“ or “9nl.com“ as a domain name for their tracking link, while pro users can choose their own domain name.
You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. You can also log into your Buffer account on the web or by downloading the mobile app to track your analytics and see how many clicks that your links have gotten. Abuse[edit] URL shortening may be utilized by spammers or for illicit internet activities. Ow.ly itself is a part of Hootsuite, a social media management service. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface.
If your organization has multiple people shortening links and posting them, be sure to provide access and training to everyone involved. If you have a link domain enabled, wait to enable HSTS until after you have uploaded this certificate for your link domain. In the sidebar click on Content » Events » Top Events.
The {redirect} macro is replaced by the offer URL for the click, and the {eredirect} macro is replaced by the URL-encoded offer URL for that click. The link subdomain does not support https out of the box. Example: link UPDATE The above is for the older version of the API - ga.js. This has been risky in the past because errors can result whenever users manually enter links.