Use short links with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons for asset tracking and proximity marketing. For specific examples about email, PDF, social media links, and more see Part II. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some.
Find the unsubscribe link in your campaign, right click, and copy the link address. For more information on how to set up Google Analytics tracking manually, take a look at Google's help pages for URL building and tagging your links. The custom tracking link page enables converting a regular custom tracking link to OneLink™.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. We then redirect the user to the destination URL. In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo! Add Tracking to Your Regular Email Campaign To add Google Analytics tracking to a regular email campaign in MailChimp, follow these steps. Create a new regular email campaign.
Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. This way you don’t have to do all the copying and pasting in Bitly.com to get your shorter version. Your application requests user data, attaching the access token to the request.
You can then create tags that wait for the gtm.linkClick event to happen, and perform additional tasks (like the external link tracker tag described below). note: There are a number of tagging strategies. Include retargeting pixels in my links to build a fan list. 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. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type-out or distribute. It provides statistics on clicks and shares, creates QR Codes automatically, enables Image Recognition (just upload images to link to your URL), it supports iBeacons, and you can specify mobile deep links, etc. Google offers several free, online courses designed to help increase your analytics knowledge. Note: In the below image, more than one language is enabled for the site, therefore the link includes the associated language. Email is the medium of this communication, not the source. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.