Well, Twitter actually increased the maximum amount of words (to about 120) allowed in a tweet and that’s a good one. Everything is changing. As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. The general idea people have about Google Analytics is that it tells you how many vistors and pageviews you are getting, where the traffic is coming from, and what content is popular on your website.
Under the section Edit public profile URL in the right rail, click the Edit icon next to your public profile URL. With our unique CTID, you are much less dependent on cookies, and have more reliable data. 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.
Before you get started, be sure to plan out your events first. URL shorteners typically work by redirecting users using a special server response commonly referred to as a "301." This tells the browser that the resource at your short URL has been permenantly moved to the full URL's location.
Find the Unique Web ID for Each Version of a Campaign For A/B Testing Campaigns that test content, each combination of the campaign will have a different web ID. 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. The macro below will allow you to grab just the hostname from the outbound URL. With a custom domain for your link shortener, people will see that you are not spamming and they will be more likely to click on your custom domain shortened link than a generic shortened link. Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. It does not allow for a custom domain at this time.
4. Ow.ly Ow.ly is another URL shortener that doesn’t require you to see ads. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. So, I bring the following best options of Bitly alternatives. For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. HasOffers stores the value of ad_id as the transaction ID for the session. Click the name of the report you want to work with. We sometimes experience products selling out suddenly in the middle of a large campaign.