Backlinks are followed by Google's robot to check if it’s a valid link. Understand who my readers are, which books are getting clicks and purchases and which marketing channel is working best.
Tag Type: Select either “Universal Analytics” or “Classic Analytics”, depending on whichever you are using. UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create. The name of the computer that holds the link source is renamed. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. Google then provides information you'll need later, such as a client ID and a client secret.
How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 359: + Added feature: include title when posting to Twitter/StatusNet Thanks. Here’s some of the click tracking information you’ll see in your overview. Send the message and receive the results via return email within seconds. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002. Tag Name: SearchSignals.com » Link Click Listener Tag Type: Link Click Listener Firing Rules SearchSignals.com » All Pages Conditions: {{url hostname}} matches RegEx (ignore case) searchsignals\.com$ The reason I explicitly include my own domain name is I don’t want the events to trigger when I’m developing on my site locally 2.
Other reason, we don’t have to deal with ads when using it. In fact, just from YouTube’s 11 characters, it can encode the numbers from one to 73,786,976,294,838,206,464 in base64. This results in registration of different URL shorteners with a myriad of different countries, leaving no relation between the country where the domain has been registered and the URL shortener itself or the shortened links. Services that don’t do this can end up being blacklisted on major websites which won’t allow links from such services to be displayed. But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point!
On Twitter and some instant-messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Examples: Netflix at one time used movi.es and BarkBox, which supplies dog treat gift packages, use the URL shortener ruv.me.