Not only is this good for link shortening, but it is also good for SEO. Creating large sets of extremely small segments will not result in useful data for your analysis.
Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way. Include retargeting pixels in my links to build a fan list. Launch and use Now that you're all set up, you're ready to use your new URL shortener. Creative-level trackers are the lowest level of segmentation and do not accept any incoming structure data from the URL.
You can copy the resulting bit.ly link and use it in your tweets, in your e-mail, or even on your website. Label: {{element url}} – Also a macro, this Element URL macro records the specific link that was clicked on. When the user leaves your website and goes to the eventbrite.com domain, Google Analytics assigns them a new client ID. Without taking this step, visits from emails will be recorded inconsistently. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 12 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 12, 2011 Thanks. With most shortened URLs, you have no idea what website the link is really associated with.
But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data. The ad tag includes the affiliate tracking link and corresponding impression pixel for display banners types so impressions can be tracked right away. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one.
Affiliate Click ID & Unique Values Click IDs and other unique values (like user hashes and programmatic API values) often reference individual clicks or sessions in other tracking systems. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. We then redirect the user to the destination URL.