By tracking those links, you can find which one is working the best. You can modify these in the ga call if necessary (lines 24 to 26). Google Analytics won't track redirects that don't contain embedded Google Analytics code.
Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. Click Download to export and save this list of contacts, or click each contact to view their activity for this campaign.
Google's URL builder lets you manually add custom analytics parameters to a website URL. Not all protocols are capable of being shortened as of 2011, although protocols such as http, https, ftp, ftps, mailto, mms, rtmp, rtmpt, ed2k, pop, imap, nntp, news, ldap, gopher, dict and dns are being addressed by such services as URL Shortener. Typically, data: and javascript: URLs are not supported for security reasons. You can easily manage links and view click statistics. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. Google Analytics even has a URL Builder tool where you can generate a URL with UTM parameters.
Why would a fashion magazine's site permit a pet training site to create a link to it? Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. The second condition makes sure that we’re not capturing any relative links that typically looks like href="/some-url-path". The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date to make it easy to search for in your Analytics dashboard. Set Different Titles for Emails in a Series All emails in an automation series will have the same title in your Google Analytics account unless you set a separate title for each. Once you've found a domain you like, you'll need to register it.
Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. Top links clicked The URLs that were clicked the most in your campaign. View Click Results on the Links Page The Links page tells you how each URL performed in the campaign. View Click Results on the Clicked Page To view a list of all recipients that clicked any tracked link in the campaign, follow these steps. You can use Analytics Events to track clicks on links that take users to a website other than your own. You’ll notice 71 tickets were sold from our Facebook event, the Eventbrite-generated links that track activity from Facebook’s newsfeed (“efbnen”, “ebfblike” and “efbnreg”) resulted in 882 views and 36 tickets sold, and those were the result of attendees sharing the event with their networks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You can easily implement custom API actions with a plugin.Below, we walk you through the steps to interact with the Google URL Shortener API.