The trickiest part of tagging links in an email is coming up with a consistent naming convention for each variable. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
Some ad campaigns may be super profitable, but the unprofitable ones eventually cause you to bleed. What Link Shorteners Do (And Don’t Do) Link shorteners were originally created to address stubborn email systems that wrapped an email after 80 characters and broke any long URLs that might have been in the message. It appears to be written in something like base64.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Shortening a long address or URL Some web pages may have a long URL that can present problems when it is pasted into another program, especially an e-mail. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing.
Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. 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. These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case). Other Helpful Macros If you have sites that you frequently link out to or have partnerships with, you might want to roll up the click events by domain name. The great thing is now you can promote your own domain in the tweets.
It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. If you are including shortened URLs in a blog or online article, obviously you would like some reassurances that the link will continue to be valid for a long time. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. You will need to make sure you have the standard google tracking script on your page too. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. This means you couldn't register, for example, domain.uk.