But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Vanity Links You can make custom vanity links with any premium account. Additionally, by collecting this data you will be able to create custom segments in Google Analytics to view the behavior of these audience members if needed.Contents Sailthru can track the clicks of links in your emails, and attribute those clicks back to the unique customer. At the top of the post creation area where you are working on your draft, you can change the slug. Aside from the custom domains that you can use with the premium option, you can also view campaign comparison charts, download the data as an excel file, filter clicks data, and much more.
Brand the client's links to increase engagement and inspire audience trust. Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content. Before Bitly (and even Twitter), there has been a URL shortener, it was TinyURL. This data is useful in aggregate to determine the response to your emails, including attributing purchases to sends, and also at the individual level to determine a user’s engagement and interaction with Lifecycle Optimizer rules and Audience Builder filters. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”. With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any page on your site.
A total of five parameters are automatically appended when you enable Google Analytics: utm_campaign: will automatically be the name of the campaign as it appears in Sailthru. utm_medium: will automatically be “email”. utm_source: will automatically be “Sailthru”. utm_term: will automatically be the name of the sending list as it appears in Sailthru. utm_content: if you are sending an AB Split or AB Winner or Auto Winner Campaign, this utm parameter will be added to your links. With GTM, all you have to do is add a small bit of code to your pages, and it creates a simple container where you can configure everything from GA to Ads, all through a simple admin panel. With a list that sorts each PDF in order of performance. Enter the name of this tracker, select link to a network and from the drop down list, select the network that this tracker should be linked. Add Tracking to Email Campaign Archives and Pages To add Google Analytics tracking to your email campaign archives and pages, follow these steps. You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc.
ADDENDUM: Plan Out Your Events in a Spreadsheet Your event reporting interface in Google Analytics will either look really pretty, or really messy, depending on how you organize your event Categories, Actions, and Labels: Take a look how the profile above has named categories…. do you think they are easy to understand? A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL.
In order to address the fear of linkrot happening when a link shortening service shuts down, the Internet Archive started the 301 Works project in an attempt to preserve the link shortening databases should participating services shut down. Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. Go to my.sailthru.com/pages and click a link to a hosted page. It depends on how the backlink has been set up on the website. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier. A short link which expires, or can be terminated, has some security advantages. 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. In order to form the key, a hash function can be made, or a random number generated so that key sequence is not predictable. My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly. This will bring up: A) All linking root domains that are pointing to your PDF B) The page they are linking from C) The domain authority of their site.