Click the owl head in the upper-left corner of the screen. Use custom domains to multiply click-throughs and increase the public's awareness of my brands. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website.
Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default. Google then provides information you'll need later, such as a client ID and a client secret. Here are 5 URL Shorteners that I actively use: Bitly: This website allows you to create an unlimited amount of bitlinks, which come with analytics and tracking. Find related extensions in the Social & Communications collection. 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.
And though it is unlikely that Bit.ly will be shut down, they are still a middleman. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future.
Link shortening hides the final destination, so of course spammers have latched onto link shortening like a leech. You can shorten a link right away, although you’ll need to enter a CAPTCHA code. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service. On the offer page, you can add the two most common parameters, aff_sub and source, via the Generate Tracking panel.
Under Tracking, click the Google Analytics link tracking box. Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter. I once went bonkers when I couldn’t get a link click tag to work… and it all came down to a lowercase typo. Leave Query String: Includes URL parameters when evaluating matches with internal and external filters. It’s a good way to package up multiple links into one link. This will allow you to plan your content strategy accordingly. Custom Variables If using the affiliate sub IDs and source values are insufficient for passing through values on click to the landing page, you can set up custom variables to use in the offer URL and tracking link. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. More » AdF.ly AdF.ly takes an interesting approach to link shortening by offering its users the opportunity to earn money by using its service. The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people.