If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. Click the “Shorten” or “Tiny!” button to shrink the size of the URL. To view the report Overview for a campaign, follow these steps. This should be for the link domain only; no wildcards. In order for this to be enabled, you must integrate with App Indexing for Android and iOS.
To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account. 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. When using Google Analytics to track your link, the most common setup is to have the Javascript tracking code for Google Analytics placed on a page where your contacts visit. 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. Another simple one, you just paste it in and go. goo.gl/0a0b0c0 Then there are the ones that people hook up to autofeed into their Twitter accounts, and most of those come with their own shorteners.
Enabling this setting records and displays the following additional link information: URL: Displays the URL that will be tracked. Update your public profile settings will show up if you don't have a public profile. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. That limits your ability to do roll-up and drill-down reporting.
Before You Start Click tracking is enabled in all MailChimp campaigns by default, and is required in all free accounts and new paid accounts. From here you can modify both your Campaign Structure and add a selection of additional parameters (including label, deeplink, redirect and fallback). If you would rather send these other devices to another location such as your website, check out fallback parameters in the next section.
Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. All three of these descriptive items will show up in your GA reporting interface, telling you stuff about the link users clicked on. Complete control over which campaigns our clients can see in their accounts. For example: Bitly is one of the most popular link shortening services, and the one we prefer to use with CoSchedule. 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. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks.