You need to categorize each link in each email so that the information reported is useful. Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. Redirecting focused just on keeping the essential usefulness solid.
Before we go any further, you must upgrade to Universal Analytics. ClickMeter is a link tracking tool that focuses on tracking links for your website so that you can monitor relevant clicks.
It wasn’t long before link shorteners quickly became more than mere link shorteners. By clicking on the toolbar button, a TinyURL will be created for the page you are currently at. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type-out or distribute.
To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page. You can also log into your Buffer account on the web or by downloading the mobile app to track your analytics and see how many clicks that your links have gotten.
The first condition allows this tag to just wait until it sees a link click event, which is the gtm.linkClick event that we were listening for above. You can set your own custom expiration dates with any premium account. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. You may want to know how your announcement emails perform compared to your regular emails listing current specials. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. Tag Type: Select “Link Click Listener” as the tag type. Use custom domains to multiply click-throughs and increase the public's awareness of my brands. Links could also be added to texts and that will also affect the length. Add Campaign name and any other parameter (optional): Add the name of the campaign to differentiate between the different creatives you are running with that specific owned media source. When you design your tracker structure along the recommendations in this guide, it’s very unlikely that you will hit this limit. For example, links that point to a page on will rewritten with any available link subdomain sharing that domain (e.g. ).