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. The next page will show you a shortened link. 7. Lists of links It's easy to save and share lists of interesting links, with the list of links feature. This chart shows how frequently the breakpoint media query values changed on this site over the last seven days as well what breakpoints were most commonly changed to/from: Getting started with autotrack To you use autotrack on one of your own sites, the best place to start is the usage documentation on Github.
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. I can even include retargeting (remarketing) in the same link. The second condition makes sure that we’re not capturing any relative links that typically looks like href="/some-url-path". Example: link UPDATE The above is for the older version of the API - ga.js. The more clicks you get on your AdF.ly links, the more money you earn. 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.
Include a link to a survey on some of our packaging labels. Like open tracking, it can help measure subscriber engagement. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. All of these things should be clearly stipulated for tags you will be setting up: There are a variety of approaches you can take to naming tags, categories, labels, firing rules, and more. And though it is unlikely that Bit.ly will be shut down, they are still a middleman.
Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine! Here’s Tom Scott to explain why YouTube will probably never run out of IDs. So if you have a page at , you can use the URL and going to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website. Go to Admin > Edit Posts, hover over the post link, look at the status bar, the number at the end of the URL is the post ID. 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. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 28 Dec 2012 More Thanks.
Whatever the case, the answer seems to be using a link shortener. As far as I know, that shorter version will link to your original URL for as long as it exists on the net. However, you or your publisher may want to use additional parameters to store information. If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them. You’ll play a “prove you’re human” game before your shortened link is produced.