Or maybe you’re using UTM tracking tags that make your link look ugly. These response events accumulate over time in a database, enabled the email marketing software to report metrics such as open-rate and click-through rates. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. It is specified in ISO 8601. analytics contains all the click statistics, broken down into the various time slices. For example, say you are using UTM codes to track website traffic. Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting.
Because plain-text campaigns don't use hyperlinks to hide MailChimp's tracking information, subscribers who view your plain-text campaigns will see the full tracking URLs. A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL. If you do nothing but add the tracking script to your pages, you’ll be faced with an endless stream of data and reports about user activity on your site.
You can also add a “bitly sidebar” to your browser. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint.
The name of the computer that holds the link source is renamed. 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. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics?
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