Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. 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. Was your Google Analytics account set up after the campaign went out? The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general.
To ensure proper tracking, use direct links to pages where Google Analytics code is embedded. All of these things should be clearly stipulated for tags you will be setting up: There are a variety of approaches you can take to naming tags, categories, labels, firing rules, and more.
Create a single responsive short link to direct readers and split into two targets based on their operating system (e.g. Just make a link to or use the following code to make a URL input box: Terms of use TinyURL was created as a free service to make posting long URLs easier, and may only be used for actual URLs. Technology[edit] The company uses HTTP 301 redirects for its links. Tracking Links to your PDF Using Open Site Explorer you can take the full URL of your PDF and drop it directly into the search bar and click search. Tagging your emails like this will give insight into how your emails compare to other types of marketing, how specific messages work across all mediums, which types of links work best in your emails, etc. You can always view clicks over a period of 24 hours, a month, and a custom date range.
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Understanding which external links are most often clicked on your website will help you understand what kind of information users are looking for. If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values. Just like you, I also hate that kind of URL shorteners. You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc.