To ensure proper tracking, use direct links to pages where Google Analytics code is embedded. Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. Authorizing requests and identifying your application Every request your application sends to the Google URL Shortener API needs to identify your application to Google. So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful. On the Links tab, Click Performance displays your tracked URLs and the number of total and unique clicks for each.
Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. It's simply to use: When you're on a page you want to create a shortened link for, just click the button in your toolbar or set up a keyboard shortcut. (Actually, you can set up a ton of shortcuts if you want, available in the extension's options, but a simple "Copy url" shortcut is the most obviously useful—maybe Ctrl+Shift+C.) The shortened URL will be automatically copied to your clipboard, and you still get all the nice stats tracking built into the goo.gl web site.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Edit short URLs or QR codes to fix broken pages any time I need it. Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. When a request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is searched for an associated URL. For PCs or other kinds of devices, these would be redirected to the iOS tracker, as it is the first.
Some URL shortening service providers have found themselves on spam blacklists, because of the use of their redirect services by sites trying to bypass those very same blacklists. Here’s some of the click tracking information you’ll see in your overview.
If you choose to edit the default title, make sure you don't include any special characters. This action makes it more convenient for your visitors to read and makes the addresses more suitable to share on Twitter. Maybe, the footer bar and the after post banner is working the best, but your sidebar ad is not. There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination. Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. For example, if your source is "newsletter", the medium should not be "email newsletter". If you are permitting other websites to create links to your site, then you need to monitor the links to your site. You’ll want to choose one that uses a 301 redirect for certain. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Before you move on, let me let you know that twitter blocks a lot of link shortening services and has since flag them negatively.