Privacy and security[edit] A short URL obscures the target address and can be used to redirect to an unexpected site. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. What Link Shorteners Do (And Don’t Do) Link shorteners were originally created to address stubborn email systems that wrapped an email after 80 characters and broke any long URLs that might have been in the message. Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. With that said, if you do need to track your URLs, or you want alternative ways to post there are plenty of ways to do it: Bit.ly: Probably the most popular URL shortener for Twitter because it was one of the first to let you track your tiny URLs. More » Goo.gl Here’s Google’s very own URL shortener, which is a popular choice that’s useful for just getting the job done as quickly as possible.
However, while Analytics shows exit pages it won’t tell you which links users clicked to leave your site. This is a great solution if your landing page is an actual URL your contacts will be visiting.
Examples of this are rickrolling, redirecting to shock sites, or to affiliate websites. Show our company logo to guest users when they login to create URLs.
This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. Upload the certificate and its corresponding key. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
If you’d like to override the default value of email for utm_medium or add new utm parameters to your links, then go to the Advance tab of your template/campaign. If you are trying to make a quick buck on your visitors I suggest this site. Tracker URLs Tracker URL refers to the entire link, complete with domain and query string. Examples: Netflix at one time used movi.es and BarkBox, which supplies dog treat gift packages, use the URL shortener ruv.me. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint. If you’re promoting your own website, then you can use the standard conversion tracking codes to record sales and leads throughout your sales funnel.Earlier, we wrote about how to install Google Analytics in WordPress, and we have received tons of questions from our users. You should see the activity in the Analytics Real-Time > Events panel. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default.