Before You Start Click tracking is enabled in all MailChimp campaigns by default, and is required in all free accounts and new paid accounts. Read the full scoop on this use case in the callbacks guide. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately.
If your organization has multiple people shortening links and posting them, be sure to provide access and training to everyone involved. Set your domain Log in to the application () using your GoDaddy login information.
It depends on how the backlink has been set up on the website. All of our premium accounts can make an unlimited number of links that won't expire. I mean, you won’t be redirected to an ads page like, for instance, Adf.ly. Google offers several free, online courses designed to help increase your analytics knowledge. Click the title of the email you want to work with. 3k answer views awe.sm is great for tracking how your link has been shared.
Some went to the extent of buying spam links which were being openly sold on the internet. Namely, I want to make sure that if have an absolute internal URL with www vs non-www that I capture both cases. Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL. In addition to creating short URL versions in the sidebar, you can get personalized stats about your Bitly links, create Tweets right from within the sidebar, and see who is linking to your URL on Twitter, FriendFeed and blog comments. We can also store your Google Analytics ID to track visits to your campaign pages and hosted campaign archive, so you can see traffic to these pages in your Google Analytics account.
There are a lot of other link shorteners, many being novelty systems (like a link shortener that doesn’t really shorten but turns your URL into a Dickens quote, or one that makes your link look shady and nefarious, or one that churns out a hipster-phrased link) or ways to earn money for yourself or for charities through ads that appear before the user gets to the destination URL. Hootsuite users will see their links shortened, but non-Hootsuite users can also use the shortener. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs. If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. In this case, each character in the sequence will be 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, a, b, c, ..., y, z. 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. In order for this to be enabled, you must integrate with App Indexing for Android and iOS.