It has a variety of numerous useful functions you will find useful in addition to the basic tracking they offer, such as bot filtering, 24/7 click fraud detection, bars at the top of ANY page you can add, timers, etc… you can determine your EXACT traffic source, IP address, and add special parameters to optimize your website, such as using the {keyword} token on google or bing ads to determine what specific keyword caused a certain action. Tag Name: SearchSignals.com » Link Click Listener Tag Type: Link Click Listener Firing Rules SearchSignals.com » All Pages Conditions: {{url hostname}} matches RegEx (ignore case) searchsignals\.com$ The reason I explicitly include my own domain name is I don’t want the events to trigger when I’m developing on my site locally 2. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. In other words, if you can discover which half of your advertising isn’t working, you can focus only on the half that is working, you can literally double your profits. For instance, if you pass , the server will add a trailing slash.
Like open tracking, it can help measure subscriber engagement. Initially Twitter automatically translated URLs longer than twenty-six characters using TinyURL, although it began using bit.ly instead in 2009[10] and later developed its own URL shortening service, t.co.
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. Then there will be links to take the viewer back to the main page.
Tag Name: External Link Tracking » GA Universal Tag Type: Google Universal Analytics Web Property ID: Your Google Universal Analytics UA id Event Type: Event Event Tracking Parameters Category: External Links Action: {{element url}} Label: {{element text}} Value: 1 Non-Interaction Hit: True Firing Rules Links - External Conditions {{event}} equals gtm.linkClick {{element url}} does not match RegEx (ignore case) ^/[^/] {{element url}} does not match RegEx (ignore case) ^[\w:]*//(www\.)?searchsignals\.com You can always rename the category and change the order of the label and action if you want to see it differently in the default Google Analytics view. Determines unique and non-unique click distribution. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type-out or distribute. You rely on this provider to keep your link viable into the future. Note: As of March 30, 2018, Google's URL shortener is only available to active users, and the data generated by those shortened URLs will only be available until March 2019.
My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly. In order to form the key, a hash function can be made, or a random number generated so that key sequence is not predictable. Here's an example of a URL that can be set as the custom click macro for an offer: {redirect} On click, the {redirect} macro in the above URL is replaced with the HasOffers tracking link for the offer: Custom Transaction IDs Before using the parameter for custom transaction ID, contact your account manager or our support team to enable the feature for your network. The tracking link would then look something like this: If you add the random_url parameter, then the ad server selects an offer URL at random from the offer (including the default offer URL) and redirects the user to that page. If your website has WordPress installed in a directory, your options might look like this, where our blog is installed in the “blog” directory: If your website is your WordPress installation, it might look like this: This works best when you choose a page slug that is short and mindful of keywords. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. In order to get your domain short enough to be effective as a URL shortener, you may want to consider these tips: Removing vowels: This is an effective way to shortener your organization's name and still making it easy to understand. Maybe you want a simple URL to put in a print add, or want to be kind to mobile readers of your content. 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. Spending too much money on AdWords, FaceBook ads and banner ads, but still can’t turn a profit? Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. If you send announcement emails outside the normal flow of newsletters or ads, this might be labeled "announcement".