This tool is especially useful if you want to detect click-fraud, see real-time click stats, and measure social media traffic. Google Analytics doesn’t “listen” for link click events by default, so that’s why we have to go the extra work of creating a link click listener tag. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. Tinycc URLs use 301 redirects, which means your browser request will be responded to with a 301 = page moved permanently status code and will forward your browser to this "moved to" address (which we are calling the long URL). I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one.
If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question. Click the name of the report you want to work with. Viewing your Link Clicking Data Once logged into Google Analytics, navigate to Behavior > Events > Overview There you will be able to view your event categories. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface.
Shorten URL (e.g. bit.ly/buSzh) is meaningless because readers don’t know where the link is directing to. We have already discussed how Google treats websites with spam links.
Instead of posting the "pretty" URL, you can shorten it by removing the "www." and using the post ID in the URL (e.g. "?p=1204"). The network shares on the link source computer are changed.
Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any page on your site. This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. Typically, data: and javascript: URLs are not supported for security reasons. Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. Troubleshooting Consider these possibilities if you see behavior you don't expect.