In the Settings & Tracking section of the Campaign Builder, click Edit. Check the Track clicks box to enable click tracking, or uncheck the box to disable click tracking. Our agency activities and custom domain portfolio remains private and secure. 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. ClickMeter is a link tracking tool that focuses on tracking links for your website so that you can monitor relevant clicks. When a link is created to a file, the target file is considered the link source, and the creator of the link is the link client. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future.
In fact, just from YouTube’s 11 characters, it can encode the numbers from one to 73,786,976,294,838,206,464 in base64. Here are 5 URL Shorteners that I actively use: Bitly: This website allows you to create an unlimited amount of bitlinks, which come with analytics and tracking.
I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions. Well in this article, we will show you how to track links in WordPress using Google Analytics. Privacy and security[edit] A short URL obscures the target address and can be used to redirect to an unexpected site. Let us know if you have any question on shortening links for Twitter, we would be very happy to respond to you.You get a whopping 280 tiny Twitter characters to say what you want to say in a tweet. We have already discussed how Google treats websites with spam links. Internal Filters: Defines filters for matching the URLs of internal links.
Label: {{element url}} – Also a macro, this Element URL macro records the specific link that was clicked on. The new shortened link would be like goo.gl/htsl Clicking on the shortened link immediately takes you to the same long address. Interestingly, that same infographic suggests that posting shortened URLs later in the week will give them a “longer lifespan”, clicking many days after it was posted. Or maybe you’re an organizer that’s spending a significant amount of money or time working on getting your event featured in a publication or email blast.
If your account has multiple link domains, the link domain used to rewrite links is dynamically chosen per-link, based on the destination of the link. 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. Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly. In order to form the key, a hash function can be made, or a random number generated so that key sequence is not predictable. Example: link UPDATE The above is for the older version of the API - ga.js. Your custom title will also appear at the end of the URL parameter, so you can see the stats for each individual PDF. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard. You can modify these in the ga call if necessary (lines 24 to 26).