To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. Short URLs, for example, will be subject to linkrot if the shortening service stops working; all URLs related to the service will become broken. Then reconnect with the same interested audience when my sequel is ready to be released.
Click the copy icon to copy the link to the clipboard. Therefore it's important to keep a tack of the links to your website. You can always view clicks over a period of 24 hours, a month, and a custom date range. Spending too much money on AdWords, FaceBook ads and banner ads, but still can’t turn a profit? For example, if you use an adgroup-level tracker and attach a campaign parameter, the parameter will be ignored and the traffic will be assigned to the adgroup.
Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way. This is a great solution if your landing page is an actual URL your contacts will be visiting.
Publish one custom branded short link on my business card, then keep the destination URL updated so that people are always taken to my latest blog post when they visit. Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co. 3. Tinyurl.com Most internet users (including me) thought that Bitly is the first ever URL shortener. Answer that, and your online profits will explode.
The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue. Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. You can access detailed campaign click stats from the report Overview, the Click Performance, and the Clicked pages in the campaign report. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. And though it is unlikely that Bit.ly will be shut down, they are still a middleman. Understanding which external links are most often clicked on your website will help you understand what kind of information users are looking for. Owned media is often a great source for abundant (and mostly free) traffic, but it's equally important to track and measure it properly, to get more installs and better engagements from your new users.