We recommend choosing only one type of Google Analytics tracking. You can use Analytics Events to track clicks on links that take users to a website other than your own.
Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. Make sure that your progress is not being hampered by this.
The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general. Click outside the box to update your generated tracking link. This way you don’t have to do all the copying and pasting in Bitly.com to get your shorter version. Its popularity influenced the creation of at least 100 similar websites,[9] although most are simply domain alternatives. Then you should get rid of the sidebar ad and focus on the other two placements. In this example, we’re creating tag that tracks any click on an email address.
Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button. Clickmeter can also be used as a URL-shortening tool with advanced click-tracking. For PCs or other kinds of devices, these would be redirected to the iOS tracker, as it is the first. This code defines the tracking action and delays loading of the outbound link by 100 milliseconds so that Google Analytics can track the click: Insert this code in addition to the standard Google Analytics tracking code for the page. Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening.
A good structure accommodates future changes or alterations. Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. Not only is this good for link shortening, but it is also good for SEO. Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right? Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 24 Jun 2011 More Firefox Vision Statement Thanks. You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 29 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 29, 2011 Thanks. For example, here's what is returned if you call the shorten method without specifying a long URL: { "error": { "errors": [ { "domain": "global", "reason": "required", "message": "Required", "locationType": "parameter", "location": "resource.longUrl" } ], "code": 400, "message": "Required" } } reason specifies the error reason.