This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year. Publishers using the publisher interface can also generate tracking links using features similar to those available in this panel.
Redirect parameters, however, always supercede any other setup. For example, if you are working with an affiliate network and want to track publisher IDs, these are usually the smallest grouping. Reporting breaks down by person, location, and device type.
I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. You should see a new tag pop up telling you that it tracked the email link click event: Once you’ve confirmed the tag works, the next step is to save a new version and publish everything. Enclose string literals within single quotation marks.
With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web. Head over to the Tools page and you will see instructions for adding a Bitly bookmarklet and/or browser extension to your favorite web browser. Since database content can be subject to frequent updating that means webpage content can frequently change as well. • The address itself will indicate static or dynamic. We will show you how you can enable automatic tracking of all outbound links in Google Analytics with WordPress.
After you click on “Edit” you can change your slug to match whatever keywords (2-5 words are best) you are focusing on in the post. All best affiliate gurus spend a big fortune creating, designing and improving their online marketing system to get an unfair advantage over everyone else. To enable SSL for your link domain Identify your link domain. In this example, we want to use several newsletters such as the "jan2018-newsletter" campaign name, which is the ‘c’ parameter in the tracking link. Please refer to Part II of this post for specific cases of tags you can create. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes.