That’s a lot of back and forth just to get me a a web page. The process must be fast, not handle clicks which have been deactivated by other processes and ensure links work even if the Analytics event fails. This app quickly sees which of your links are more efficient in driving incoming traffic to your site. If you are using the newer Universal tracking please refer to the docs. Acquiring and using an API key Requests to the Google URL Shortener API for public data must be accompanied by an identifier, which can be an API key or an access token.
Enclose string literals within single quotation marks. Alternatively, if uppercase and lowercase letters are differentiated, then each character can represent a single digit within a number of base 62 (26 + 26 + 10). Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing.
Click this number in your report to open a list of subscribers who clicked. Just save the tag and then test before publishing. To double check, replicate the campaign and look at the tracking options you selected. If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF. Why would you want to use Google's service instead of bit.ly or ow.ly or is.gd, or any of the dozens and dozens of other URL shorteners out there? TinyURL was used by early bloggers before many of these other services were around.
You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar. It’s one of the earliest link shorteners out there and allows you to customize the actual shortened link (again, if the customization is not yet taken). See the URL insert method in the Reference document for more details.
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. Once the call is complete, it can run a callback function so we can redirect to the outbound page. If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF. This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page. I have been using this tool myself for the past half year and have to say it’s the most advanced and easiest tool to use for tracking your website actions.