You’ll see a nice overlay at the bottom that tells you what Google Tag Manager is currently “hearing”: Go ahead and click on an email address (you may want to open the link in a new window). Initially Twitter automatically translated URLs longer than twenty-six characters using TinyURL, although it began using bit.ly instead in 2009[10] and later developed its own URL shortening service, t.co. This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page.
Firing Rules: Set to All Pages You want Tag Manager to listen for all link clicks on all pages – so just check the preconfigured firing rule for “All pages”. Before you move on, let me let you know that twitter blocks a lot of link shortening services and has since flag them negatively.
Just save the tag and then test before publishing. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. 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. This way you don’t have to do all the copying and pasting in Bitly.com to get your shorter version.
Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. Let’s say you have two e-commerce apps, one on iOS and one on Android, and you have set up both in Adjust.
You can use this service with or without an account. Tracking Visits from Emails Tracking visitors that come from emails is simple enough if you use campaign tracking for each link. The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue. 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. Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. You can also create a tracking domain to “gather metrics for all users that are shortening links to your site”. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers.