Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Let’s say the link is www.tech-recipes.com/2017/how-to-shorten-links-on-twitter-easily and it’s then shortened. Here is how we set up sham.rocks to forward to a LinkedIn profile (): That’s it, URL forwarding to your LinkedIn profile is set up and working! The example above is live and in action here: sham.rocks. Examples: Netflix at one time used movi.es and BarkBox, which supplies dog treat gift packages, use the URL shortener ruv.me.
All you need to do on this page is type in your LinkedIn profile URL and pick which type of forwarding you want to use. When a user clicks on a link that is being listened to, Google Tag Manager fires off a gtm.linkClick event.
Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. Instead, they create a “tracking link” that will act as a redirect to the actual landing page or website URL.
But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it. The Apple App Site Association File is not required. Another simple one, you just paste it in and go. goo.gl/0a0b0c0 Then there are the ones that people hook up to autofeed into their Twitter accounts, and most of those come with their own shorteners. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data. You can’t deny the usefulness of them with social media (especially Twitter) and the additional layer of analytics you can get on your links.
To track only the HTML version of your campaign, and not the plain-text version, you can create a custom tracking code using Google's resources and add it to the HTML of your campaign. Click Trackers, select NEW TRACKER and the Adjust Tracker Wizard will open up. For example, if someone was on the /about/ page, and clicked on an email address, then Google Analytics will record /about/. Your event URL is located near the middle of the Event Dashboard, below your sales data. Just select the copy icon on the right to copy the link. Some will show up as a referral from a webmail address, like mail.yahoo.com. Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. Just get everything in a bit. Now, it’s trending to see people add and sharing links on Twitter as much as possible. It works almost immediately and you can shorten as much as you want, anytime. With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. 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.