This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. The trickiest part of tagging links in an email is coming up with a consistent naming convention for each variable. Authenticate your Google Analytics profile or enter UA-Code manually.
For a list of the file system control codes that perform operations on object IDs, see File Management Control Codes. Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements. You can turn click tracking on and off in paid accounts after you've sent a few campaigns without generating any compliance issues. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
TinyURL: This shortener use to be all over the internet; however, lately it has died down. If you set Use Google Analytics? to “Yes”, then all links will add special utm parameters that will allow you to identify traffic coming from emails in Google Analytics. In this article, you will learn how to control, review, and interpret click tracking. They do this by showing your visitor an add before they are taken to another webpage. Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! Troubleshooting Consider these possibilities if you see behavior you don't expect.
Adjust label parameters are extremely handy when you have user-specific data that you want to access in other systems. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. With this level of visual reporting you can view a complete account overview of all your statistics, or drill down into each individual link to see when it got the most clicks, and where your traffic is coming from. When using Google Analytics to track your link, the most common setup is to have the Javascript tracking code for Google Analytics placed on a page where your contacts visit.
Other link tracker software use only cookies, which severely limits what you can track and how you track. Once you are sure that your WordPress site does not have Google Analytics code, go to Settings » Google Analytics. You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc. They can hide their nefarious links in a shortened URL meaning people either clicked on the links and quickly learned to either never trust a shortened link, or to always use a link extraction site (e.g. WhereDoesThisLinkGo) to see where the shortened link actually went before they clicked. But links can avoid suspicion and creep in and ruin websites. If you're comfortable with Web hosting and setting up simple PHP and mySQL applications, there are several free scripts you can use to set up a URL shortener on your own server, giving you much more control. Note: If you will implement HSTS on your primary domain only, allowing your link domain to remain accessible via HTTP, the following actions are not needed.