Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin.
Testing Tracking Links To test if your offer is properly directing, click on the test link on the offer's Tracking page. 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. You can also add a “bitly sidebar” to your browser. Eventbrite lets you redirect users to the URL of your choice after purchase. When the IShellLink::Resolve method is called and the referent file cannot be found, for example, when the user activates a shell shortcut, the tracking service is called automatically to find the file. Troubleshooting Consider these possibilities if you see behavior you don't expect.
In November 2009, the shortened links of the URL shortening service Bitly were accessed 2. The reason for this is because cookies cannot be set cross-domain, and pageviews, interest data and campaign-specific purchase attribution would not function. Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. Users are only attributed to trackers with fallback clicks providing they cannot be attributed to any other tracker via any other attribution methodology. This method can create some clever domains and also have the advantage of using the domain extension itself as part of the word or words you're trying to convey.
Charts and Graphs Get free real-time graphs so you can clearly visualize your link activity and see where you're getting the most response. See the URL list method in the Reference document for more details.
Find the Unique Web ID for Each Version of a Campaign For A/B Testing Campaigns that test content, each combination of the campaign will have a different web ID. Note These link tracking schemes are transparent to the end-user. But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. The link client can fix a broken link with updated information on the new location of the link source. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. URL Shortener API is available in JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, . URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability. Notes: Your custom URL can have 5-30 letters or numbers. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums.