Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. The new shortened link would be like goo.gl/htsl Clicking on the shortened link immediately takes you to the same long address.
Example: link UPDATE The above is for the older version of the API - ga.js. Tracking Link Clicks with Event Tracking vs Virtual Pageviews You are also able to use virtual pageviews to track link clicks however, this technique may cause problems elsewhere. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. The goo.gl service provides analytics details and a QR code generator.[citation needed] On 30 March 2018 Google announced that it is "turning down support for goo.gl over the coming weeks and replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links" (although existing goo.gl links will continue to function).[19] Advantages[edit] The main advantage of a short link is that it is, in fact, short, looks neat and clean and can be easily communicated and entered without error.[20] To a very limited extent it may obscure the destination of the URL, though easily discoverable; this may be advantageous, disadvantageous, or irrelevant.
As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. Notes You can further modify these tracking URLs as you wish by clicking on the settings wheel beside the tracker and then EDIT. The boxes in the screenshot below should be empty. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type-out or distribute.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks. In general, don't remove vowels at the beginning of words, though. Clickmeter can also be used as a URL-shortening tool with advanced click-tracking.
Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. Create a single responsive short link to direct readers and split into two targets based on their operating system (e.g. You can freely combine multi-platform trackers with deep links and fallbacks. This restriction is imposed by optimisation algorithms designed to create reports and rapidly fill the dashboard. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 3 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thanks. Search Engines and Link Indexing Two methods that search engines use to discover links and pages: 1) Webmasters can inform search engines about new links with a submission form. View Click Results in Report Overview The report Overview gives you a broad summary of how well a campaign performed. Not all protocols are capable of being shortened as of 2011, although protocols such as http, https, ftp, ftps, mailto, mms, rtmp, rtmpt, ed2k, pop, imap, nntp, news, ldap, gopher, dict and dns are being addressed by such services as URL Shortener. Was your Google Analytics account set up after the campaign went out? How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.