We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private. Some websites allow other websites to create links.
URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways. To store unique session information—like click IDs or user hashes—use the affiliate click ID or unique value parameters instead. Tinyarro.ws, and qoiob.com use Unicode characters to achieve the shortest URLs possible, since more condensed URLs are possible with a given number of characters compared to those using a standard Latin alphabet.[citation needed] Services may record inbound statistics, which may be viewed publicly by others.[5] Expiry and time-limited services[edit] Many providers of shortened URLs claim that they will "never expire" (there is always the implied small print: so long as we do not decide to discontinue this service—there is no contract to be breached by a free service, regardless of "promises"—and remain in business). It's also worth considering leaving the most recognizable part of your name spelled out. Tracking ID You can either manually type your unique Google Analytics ID into this field (ex: UA-########-1) or use a convenient macro that plugs this in for you. Adding all three of these would give you a URL similar to: This would create a segment displayed in your dashboard as “AdNetwork > CAMPAIGN_1 > ANY_NAME > REPLACE_ME.” Go ahead - try it!
To enable external link tracking, select Track External. (Optional) To specify the external links to track, in the External Filters box type all or part of the URL of the link target. Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content. But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point! Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You can then create tags that wait for the gtm.linkClick event to happen, and perform additional tasks (like the external link tracker tag described below). note: There are a number of tagging strategies.
Charts and Graphs Get free real-time graphs so you can clearly visualize your link activity and see where you're getting the most response. The custom tracking link page enables converting a regular custom tracking link to OneLink™. Enter data in the required fields and click 'Track Now.' This utility will display the URL, and if it is indexed by search engines and its PR value.
You need to be signed in to your bit.ly account before you can enter tracking data for the link. 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. 2) Search engines automatically find links when they exist on public pages. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. The tracking mechanisms employed are typically first-party cookies and web bugs. You will also see some ads but still reasonable enough and not too annoying. Not all protocols are capable of being shortened as of 2011, although protocols such as http, https, ftp, ftps, mailto, mms, rtmp, rtmpt, ed2k, pop, imap, nntp, news, ldap, gopher, dict and dns are being addressed by such services as URL Shortener. In general, don't remove vowels at the beginning of words, though. Enclose string literals within single quotation marks. It will track the links, but you will still need to use the 'Link Tracker' utility provided by smallseotools.com to examine the links and verify them. When a visitor clicks on your tracking link, LinkTrackr places a cookie on the user’s computer, as well as generate a unique Click Tracking ID or CTID.