Clickmeter can also be used as a URL-shortening tool with advanced click-tracking. The first condition allows this tag to just wait until it sees a link click event, which is the gtm.linkClick event that we were listening for above.
The website is just as basic it was when it launched, but it does the deed. You should see a new tag pop up telling you that it tracked the email link click event: Once you’ve confirmed the tag works, the next step is to save a new version and publish everything.
Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. Have you tested the Google Analytics URL parameters? Yourls is a way to homebrew your own shortened links so that you don’t have to rely on that middleman.
As my day commenced I started to realize that I was getting smarter by the minute. Your domain registar account usually has URL forwarding options for the domain. It would be advisable first to list all the links to your site and if you find any suspicious links, use this utility to examine it.
Users can create these short links through the web interface at goo.gl, or they can programatically create them through the URL Shortener API. You can copy/paste the backlink URLs that you want to check from your website. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? It creates short URLs and also keeps a track of All clicks and gives superb statistics. Some shortening services, such as goo.gl, tinyurl.com, and bit.ly can generate URLs that are human-readable, although the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service. TinyURL: This shortener use to be all over the internet; however, lately it has died down. Finally, Event Tracking employs an object-oriented model that you can use to collect and classify different types of interaction with your web page objects.