Note: As of March 30, 2018, Google's URL shortener is only available to active users, and the data generated by those shortened URLs will only be available until March 2019. Clicking on it will show you a list of outgoing URL(s) users clicked on your website.
This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. As you'll need to be using Google Tag Manager for this, it's as simple as using the Universal Analytics tag template. Any information in this field gets reported in the Keywords report under Traffic Sources, alongside all the search engine traffic. If you find someone who says he or she loves social media but doesn’t have a twitter account, then that person just likes social media.
It can also reveal if emails get forwarded (but not usually to whom). We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes.
See who’s ignoring you The Inbox Dashboard shows you exactly what you want to know — like which messages have been opened but didn’t get a reply. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. At the top of the post creation area where you are working on your draft, you can change the slug.
Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period. It would be advisable first to list all the links to your site and if you find any suspicious links, use this utility to examine it. Low cost way to start a personal brand and make vanity URLs. Track Unique Visitors With a Professional account, we'll analyze your tracking data and tell you which visitors are unique. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. You rely on this provider to keep your link viable into the future. Practice pasting URL You can practice copying and pasting the URL of this page by following the above steps and then pasting the URL into the text box, below.