So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful. Owned media is often a great source for abundant (and mostly free) traffic, but it's equally important to track and measure it properly, to get more installs and better engagements from your new users.
We will show you how you can enable automatic tracking of all outbound links in Google Analytics with WordPress. See the URL list method in the Reference document for more details. View Click Results in Report Overview The report Overview gives you a broad summary of how well a campaign performed. They began to allow publishers to track the links they posted with analytics.
Instead it is simply a pointer that forwards traffic to a different address. Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. Top links clicked The URLs that were clicked the most in your campaign. View Click Results on the Links Page The Links page tells you how each URL performed in the campaign. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered.
Real time link editing means a quick edit is all it takes to instantly shift customers to a new landing page. Tag Name: You can name a tag anything you like: “Link Click Listener” seems like a pretty obvious place to start. Abbreviate or shorten: Use common abbreviations to make things shorter or just chop off some letters of your name. Abuse[edit] URL shortening may be utilized by spammers or for illicit internet activities.
Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS. Each time a contact clicks a link in the campaign, the tracking information redirects them through MailChimp's servers and sends them to the intended web address. You can also copy the link and paste it into a new window. Aside from the custom domains that you can use with the premium option, you can also view campaign comparison charts, download the data as an excel file, filter clicks data, and much more. For example, here's what is returned if you call the shorten method without specifying a long URL: { "error": { "errors": [ { "domain": "global", "reason": "required", "message": "Required", "locationType": "parameter", "location": "resource.longUrl" } ], "code": 400, "message": "Required" } } reason specifies the error reason.