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. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page.
OLE linking includes the same heuristic link tracking. Be sure that you spell gtm.linkClick exactly as it looks: this field is case sensitive. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL.
Bitly has a lot of advanced features and tools over google. ClickMeter is a super-easy to use web-based professional tool.
Click this number in your report to open a list of subscribers who clicked. Plus+ Tracking If you have a Professional account, you can use our exclusive Plus+ Tracking feature to create special use tracking campaigns and sub-campaigns within your accout. Reporting breaks down by person, location, and device type. So if you have a page at , you can use the URL and going to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website.
Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. When your campaign arrives in recipients' inboxes, the plain-text click tracking will look something like this example. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. The Basics Behind URL Shortening The simplest way to describe URL shortening might be to describe how some of the existing URL shortening sites work. For example, say you are using UTM codes to track website traffic. This app quickly sees which of your links are more efficient in driving incoming traffic to your site. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. SOCIAL as a short and memorable name that forwards directly to your LinkedIn profile. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. Understanding which external links are most often clicked on your website will help you understand what kind of information users are looking for.