Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. Keyword This field should never be used in an email campaign.
You can also get a general overview of both open and click statistics from the Campaigns page in your account. For example, if you use an adgroup-level tracker and attach a campaign parameter, the parameter will be ignored and the traffic will be assigned to the adgroup. Conversely, when you delete an object ID, the link tracking service stops maintaining links to the file.
This is something you’ll often hear from link shortener detractors. Type any message that you want to add to the link into the text input field. According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites. Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics. Use insights from tracking reports to understand who my customers are, spot product micro trends and ratchet up results on the next campaign.
Shortening links for Twitter simply means reducing its length and at the same time, it still works correctly. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data. Whatever the case, the answer seems to be using a link shortener.
When someone clicks on the link, they will be taken to your Bitly page where all the links can be accessed. Open the Universal Links settings page in My Sailthru under Setup > Universal Links. Bitly Tools If you think you will be needing an email shortener on a regular basis, you might as well go ahead and register on Bitly‘s site. They offer some convenient tools to make shortening URLs a faster process. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. Additionally, I want to make sure that if I have to exclude my domain as part of a tracking parameter in an external URL, that I don’t accidently exclude that click from being tracked. note: If you have both GA Universal and GA Classic running on the same site, you’ll have to create 2 separate External Link Trackers. Check Validation: Also optional, but this just makes sure the user “really” clicked on the link.