You can use Analytics Events to track clicks on links that take users to a website other than your own. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this.
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. The Apple App Site Association File is not required. Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection.
If Google determines that your request and the token are valid, it returns the requested data. You need to be signed in to your bit.ly account before you can enter tracking data for the link. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. It gives you yet another level of analytics that you can use to base your decisions on. It appears to be written in something like base64. There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff.
Users can create these short links through the web interface at goo.gl, or they can programatically create them through the URL Shortener API. This will help you give more time-oriented outreach to people who have recently pointed to your resources, these are the most apt to engage. When setting up a new campaign or setting up a new traffic source, think about questions like: How is this source structured? That limits your ability to do roll-up and drill-down reporting.
To track only the HTML version of your campaign, and not the plain-text version, you can create a custom tracking code using Google's resources and add it to the HTML of your campaign. As another example, Google can't crawl and index the links inside of your Tinycc account. You can later go back and add additional links to any of your saved bundles. Determines unique and non-unique click distribution. 6Extending your attribution funnel with fallback clicks Most mobile marketers would agree that while last-click attribution optimally identifies the final pre-app store engagement, it can make tracking for alternative redirect locations more difficult.