The ad tag includes the affiliate tracking link and corresponding impression pixel for display banners types so impressions can be tracked right away. That’s a lot of back and forth just to get me a a web page. If you choose to disable the short URL, you can do so by deleting the entry that it is posted in. By tracking those links, you can find which one is working the best. You can also get a general overview of both open and click statistics from the Campaigns page in your account. Tag Name: You can name a tag anything you like: “Link Click Listener” seems like a pretty obvious place to start.
Once this is enabled, you can append the following parameter to your tracking link: url Unlike the url_id parameter, this parameter expects a valid, encoded deep URL to be added for traffic to redirect to: Payout on Click In some cases, you may want to dynamically pass the payout that the publisher receives for a session. See if you are using Classic Analytics (ga.js) or Universal Analytics (analytics.js).