Without tracking those metrics, how do you know which method is working the best? When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface. For example, if you send out weekly newsletters, this might be "newsletter". The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general.
There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. Not all protocols are capable of being shortened as of 2011, although protocols such as http, https, ftp, ftps, mailto, mms, rtmp, rtmpt, ed2k, pop, imap, nntp, news, ldap, gopher, dict and dns are being addressed by such services as URL Shortener. In this case, this is what I used: Category: Email Link Click – I manually named this, so it’s easy for me to see that this category includes any link on an email address. To use custom campaigns, you add UTM parameters to your URL which are then recorded in your custom analytics report.
Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. Every single email address links contains mailto: so this firing rule ensures that this tag only fires on clicks where links are “mailto” type email addresses. But since these keys are unique, you would need to specify a key that is not yet being used through that site.
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You can also view a world map where your last 50 clicks came from. For a list of the file system control codes that perform operations on object IDs, see File Management Control Codes. Write down this value and the combination title or description it goes with so you can reference it when you view your data in Google Analytics later. Affiliate Click ID & Unique Values Click IDs and other unique values (like user hashes and programmatic API values) often reference individual clicks or sessions in other tracking systems. However, we don’t want to exclude any href that starts with 2 slashes because those are usually fully qualified absolute URLs that are trying to be protocol relative (typically sites that have both HTTP and HTTPS experiences). The tool is free and can be used whenever you want. If you click the shortened link on bit.ly, you get access to detailed traffic information related to number of clicks, referring Web sites, and geographic locations of the users who clicked.