If done properly you should have "" on the above box. Before you send your campaign, make a note of these unique IDs so you'll know which Google Analytics title goes with which combination of your campaign. Build trust & increase click rate: people tend to click on the links that they trust rather than unknown URLs (ie. bit.ly/buSzh might be a spam link). To add the source parameter, check the Add Source box.
It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones. You can also learn how to track clicks on a link in Google analytics. If you’re linking from one site using Analytics to another using Analytics Google could record that relationship.
Enter your details here, if your WordPress website is hosted on the same server as your URL shortener, enter the local path. Since database content can be subject to frequent updating that means webpage content can frequently change as well. • The address itself will indicate static or dynamic. Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use.
However, while Analytics shows exit pages it won’t tell you which links users clicked to leave your site. By clicking on the toolbar button, a TinyURL will be created for the page you are currently at.
If you are using the newer Universal tracking please refer to the docs. You might be listing them all on your site's main page and linking them to the relevant content page. Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. In your Bitly account settings, you can, among other things, create a custom short domain name for your Bitly links. Our CTID can be passed through any affiliate network using SubID tracking. You can also pass the CTID to affiliate networks with pixel tracking or postback tracking if the network supports it. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways. Go to my.sailthru.com/pages and click a link to a hosted page. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. When choosing a link shortener I take into account weather it provides opportunity to create branded shortlinks, change the target URL, how detailed and useful analytics are available, does it notify me if the link is broken. 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. Does your website code allow the following external variables? utm_source= utm_campaign= utm_medium= For the sake of page security, a link is designed to fail if a query value outside of what is expected is fed in to a page. Be sure that you spell gtm.linkClick exactly as it looks: this field is case sensitive. This should not contain information already in the campaign name or medium fields.