This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. Well, Twitter actually increased the maximum amount of words (to about 120) allowed in a tweet and that’s a good one. Everything is changing. Why would a fashion magazine's site permit a pet training site to create a link to it?
Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private. Click on settings for the app that you wish to create a new tracking URL. A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser.
The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. Users can create these short links through the web interface at goo.gl, or they can programatically create them through the URL Shortener API. Orientation: How you decide to design your site's layout may be influenced by whether your users view your site primarily in landscape or portrait mode. This action makes it more convenient for your visitors to read and makes the addresses more suitable to share on Twitter. The {redirect} macro is replaced by the offer URL for the click, and the {eredirect} macro is replaced by the URL-encoded offer URL for that click.
Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content. To store unique session information—like click IDs or user hashes—use the affiliate click ID or unique value parameters instead. Bitly searches its database for the key UOLsVl and, if it finds that key in its database, it automatically redirects the browser to the associated web page, in this case . Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 14 Dec 2012 More Thanks. For more information about OLE links, see IOleLink.
Other reason, we don’t have to deal with ads when using it. For example, label the company logo that shows up on each email as "logo", or the main picture in an email as "main picture". If you send announcement emails outside the normal flow of newsletters or ads, this might be labeled "announcement". This results in registration of different URL shorteners with a myriad of different countries, leaving no relation between the country where the domain has been registered and the URL shortener itself or the shortened links. If you’re linking from one site using Analytics to another using Analytics Google could record that relationship. You can also create a tracking domain to “gather metrics for all users that are shortening links to your site”.