On 14 August 2009 WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.[11] In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2. This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. To turn click tracking on or off in a regular email campaign, follow these steps. You can use your own short URLs to point to different pages on your site. All that you need to do is to get in your search browser and go to smallseotools.com and search for the 'Link Tracker' icon and click on it. It appears to be written in something like base64.
Example for event tracking using the newer API:
You can also use it to determine how to format your emails and what types of information to include. Some will show up as a referral from a webmail address, like mail.yahoo.com. Well in this article, we will show you how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics. This has been risky in the past because errors can result whenever users manually enter links. Distributed Link Tracking Server The distributed link tracking server runs on each domain controller in a domain.
Analytics and Statistics URL shortening services such as bitly and google provides much more than shortening the URLs. Technically not part of any protocol, it is simply a convention standing for world wide web.
Maybe, the footer bar and the after post banner is working the best, but your sidebar ad is not. This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns. Given the choice between spending time and money to find a different home, or just giving up, the latter won out.[22] Google's url-shortener discussion group has frequently included messages from frustrated users reporting that specific shortened URLs have been disabled after they were reported as spam.[23] A study in May 2012 showed that 61% of URL shorteners had shut down (614 of 1002).[24] The most common cause cited was abuse by spammers. By tracking those links, you can find which one is working the best. However, standard analytics tools only do a great job in describing activities within the website without dealing too much with your links outside your website. Under the section Edit public profile URL in the right rail, click the Edit icon next to your public profile URL. Some ad campaigns may be super profitable, but the unprofitable ones eventually cause you to bleed.