Also, a custom domain might improve the amount of clicks your link receives. According to RadiumOne, URL shorteners that offer vanity domains can increase sharing up to 25 percent. Assign Parameters: Here is where you assign the tag’s Category, Action, and Label. 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. It lives outside their known universe of pages and links. Once this is enabled, you can append the following parameter to your tracking link: url Unlike the url_id parameter, this parameter expects a valid, encoded deep URL to be added for traffic to redirect to: Payout on Click In some cases, you may want to dynamically pass the payout that the publisher receives for a session.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks. But now I have the option to make special mistake-proof short links for print purposes. When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link. Then reconnect with the same interested audience when my sequel is ready to be released. In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo! Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine!
Your custom title will also appear at the end of the URL parameter, so you can see the stats for each individual PDF. XML that has been specially designed to handle such requests. Before we go any further, you must upgrade to Universal Analytics. Shorten Link Action Shortened links are very useful because: 1.
The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. Include retargeting pixels in my links to build a fan list. You'll also get detailed statistics for every link when you sign up for an account, and you're paid via PayPal for payouts as low as $5. More » Bit.do Bit.do is another great alternative that's both simple and powerful. Clicks: The total number of times this link has been clicked. It’s a pain, but the outbound link tracking code shown below won’t work without it. (It could be made to work with legacy Analytics, but it’ll eventually stop working so it’s best to upgrade now.) Custom Event Tracking Analytics supports event tracking. TinyURL was used by early bloggers before many of these other services were around.
Short URLs, for example, will be subject to linkrot if the shortening service stops working; all URLs related to the service will become broken. Google's URL builder lets you manually add custom analytics parameters to a website URL. Understanding which external links are most often clicked on your website will help you understand what kind of information users are looking for. You are also able to use the same tools such as bookmarklets and third-party apps using their API with your custom domain name. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API. Any information in this field gets reported in the Keywords report under Traffic Sources, alongside all the search engine traffic. Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent * using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it. */ var trackOutboundLink = function(url) { ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, { 'transport': 'beacon', 'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;} }); } You'll also need to add (or modify) the onclick attribute to your links. As you can see from the pie charts below, most Demos & Tools users are on large screens, at regular resolution, in landscape mode: The tables below outline how each of the media query values are defined: Breakpoints Resolution Orientation For more information on how to configure media query tracking for your site, refer to the mediaQueryTracker configuration section of the autotrack documentation.