Have you tested the Google Analytics URL parameters? This way they can use shortened URLs but still give people confidence about where the link will lead. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. For example, if your source is "newsletter", the medium should not be "email newsletter". You can then create tags that wait for the gtm.linkClick event to happen, and perform additional tasks (like the external link tracker tag described below). note: There are a number of tagging strategies. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system.
They can hide their nefarious links in a shortened URL meaning people either clicked on the links and quickly learned to either never trust a shortened link, or to always use a link extraction site (e.g. WhereDoesThisLinkGo) to see where the shortened link actually went before they clicked. The examples use curl and OACurl to show you how to get started interacting with the API quickly, right from the command line. An Alternative To Link Shorteners Perhaps you’d like to avoid using a link shortening service. As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. The group link will then open the web pages in order with a control bar at the top of the browser. Once you have made these modifications, click on APPLY for each and then finally CREATE.
Google has possibly started this process for you but the tracking code must be updated on your website pages. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 10 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 10, 2011 Thanks. I once went bonkers when I couldn’t get a link click tag to work… and it all came down to a lowercase typo. In this article: Using Google Tag Manager If you use Google Tag Manager to manage your Analytics tracking, follow the instructions in Analytics Events to implement events. Sharing toolbar Make your short links easy to share by displaying a toolbar on them. You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings.
Because plain-text campaigns don't use hyperlinks to hide MailChimp's tracking information, subscribers who view your plain-text campaigns will see the full tracking URLs. It gives you yet another level of analytics that you can use to base your decisions on. And since the original web address never changes, the URL seen in the address bar never changes either. • A third simple method if you don't have a website - requires only a domain name. The key to protecting your SEO, then, is to choose a link shortening service that uses a 301 redirect. See if you are using Classic Analytics (ga.js) or Universal Analytics (analytics.js).