In those cases, you can add the following parameters to your affiliate tracking link for your publisher to provide more data: Source & Affiliate Sub IDs Some of the most commonly used parameters are the traffic source and affiliate sub ID parameters: source aff_sub aff_sub2 aff_sub3 aff_sub4 aff_sub5 These parameters are used to store non-unique session information from the affiliate’s tracking system that they want passed back on conversion. With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics.
The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. In order for this to be enabled, you must integrate with App Indexing for Android and iOS. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. For segment A, the value will be “A”, for B, “B” and “Final” for the Final version of the AB Winner/Auto Winner test. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. When developing your application, however, feel free to use your preferred HTTP, JSON, and OAuth libraries.
Each time a contact clicks a link in the campaign, the tracking information redirects them through MailChimp's servers and sends them to the intended web address. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks).
You can also copy the link and paste it into a new window. Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it? When someone pastes this shorter URL in their browser, they are initially directed to the Bitly site. However, there are many instances where you or your publisher may want to keep track of additional information. Other link tracker software use only cookies, which severely limits what you can track and how you track.
You can also share files, images and videos easily with Ow.ly in all sorts of different formats. The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date to make it easy to search for in your Analytics dashboard. Add Tracking to Your Automated Email Campaign To add Google Analytics tracking to an automated email campaign in MailChimp, follow these steps. Links that users create through the URL Shortener can also open directly in your mobile applications that can handle those links. 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. You can also right-click any highlighted section and choose Copy from the drop-down menu. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You’ll see a nice overlay at the bottom that tells you what Google Tag Manager is currently “hearing”: Go ahead and click on an email address (you may want to open the link in a new window). OneLink™ enables using a single link to diagnose and redirect users to different locations based on their devices' type. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry.