What’s really great is you don’t have to add any of your own custom javascript. To view individual link results, follow these steps. On the Setup step, provide a title for the email in the Google Analytics title for email field. You can see when you created the link, how many people have clicked on it, and a few more details.
We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. When we shorten a link, it appears like so: Our URLs are shortened and we can still use the tracking features in Bit.ly, but instead of our readers seeing Bit.ly in the shortened links, they see our custom domain. Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that uses both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "AFFSUB" and "SOURCE" placeholder values. Shortcomings[edit] Short URLs often circumvent the intended use of top-level domains for indicating the country of origin; domain registration in many countries requires proof of physical presence within that country, although a redirected URL has no such guarantee.
To ensure proper tracking, use direct links to pages where Google Analytics code is embedded. See how that one event isn’t named correctly, so it shows as undefined? Enabling this setting records and displays the following additional link information: URL: Displays the URL that will be tracked. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. For example, if your source is "newsletter", the medium should not be "email newsletter". It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links.
But that's where the myth of having links regardless of where they came from to a website ended. For segment A, the value will be “A”, for B, “B” and “Final” for the Final version of the AB Winner/Auto Winner test. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. An example Turn this URL: X0DER&pf_rd_s=center-10&pf_rd_r=11EYKTN682A79T370AM3&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1270985982&pf_rd_i=B002Y27P3M into this TinyURL: Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? This response will include a status code, a human readable message, and a list of error details. MailChimp reports provide a few different metrics for measuring click activity on a campaign report.
However, there are many instances where you or your publisher may want to keep track of additional information. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Please refer to Part II of this post for specific cases of tags you can create. Plus, you can also share the URL you shorten via QR code since this tool also offer it. One good way to do this is to use Domai.nr, which links directly to registrars for many domain extensions. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. The first condition allows this tag to just wait until it sees a link click event, which is the gtm.linkClick event that we were listening for above. Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable.