My friend got a site on wix.com.
I would like to track how users found the site.
I want to create QR codes with http://example.com/?referrer=doors or http://example.com/?referrer=billboard` and then track the value of the referrer parameter.
Can wix.com do that out of the box?
If not can you suggest a solution?
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I set up our messaging service to allow for link shortening within Twilio. I am particularly interested in link tracking capabilities and webhooks.
Added the website domain, verified it. Put in the DNS TXT records according to their instructions. Everything seems to be in order. Yet when I send a link with the ShortenURL=True the link sends as a shortened link but when clicked it doesn't redirect so it takes the user to a 404 page.
I am wondering if there is an issue with the DNS records... or if I am supposed to configure a special domain exclusively for our own shortened links.
the shortened link:
https://portraitsbychristopher.com/qMqpqUP9Wg
Where it should redirect:
https://portraitsbychristopher.com/Tiaras
Tried reading the Twilio docs.
I came accross to a situation where Firefox in incognito mode blocks some of the cookies on my site. More specifically google analytics cookies like _ga, _gid, ..etc. Searching in the internet I came across to this article. So browsers like Firefox somehow identify these cookies as tracking. But how? How does it know which cookies are tracking and which not? I need to know this because next time I set cookies on my server I dont want them to be blocked by browsers.
In context of the article it just means blocking reference links. For instance it blocks sending the referral information from, for instance Facebook, to other sites.
Other sites use the referral information to decide who to pay to get more traffic and stuff like that.
There's like 100 different versions of the idea of "tracking" though.
Like the article points out, your ISP always know every DNS search you do and every call to an IP so they always know ALLLL your traffic and are "tracking" it.
There's also "ad tracking" where all those google calls send out what the crawler says is on the page in order to create targeted ads and all that.
I think, based on what you wrote, you're just talking about tracking links which is just scrubbing the referral link part though.
You'd have to be more specific if that's not what you're looking at.
As we are moving from the classic google analytics to the Universal google analytics for the marketing requirement, i need to find out from where the customer is coming from. If he is coming from the marketing campaigns then we have the param utm_source from url. So with this I can find out the customer visit. But if the customer is from the google results, then there will be no extra parameters added to the URL.
Because of this, I am unable to differentiate whether the customer is from the Google Results or from the direct URL visit. My idea is to use, HTTP_REFERRER. But this will result in lot of requests to server for each page load which results in unnecessary load on server.
Universal google analytics does support _utmz cookies. It will only supported in classic google analytics. So is there any better way to differentiate the customer visit from the google results and the direct URL visit.
I think your idea to use the referrer is as solid as it gets. You do not need any server roundtrips, since you can access the referrer via Javascript using document.referrer - if that is empty you have a direct type-in/bookmark, else you can check against a list of hostnames of search engines. This might not match to 100% with Google Analytics attribution, but should give you a usable approximation (it will obviously only work on the landing page, after that the referrer is your own site).
I am looking for a way to retrieve a place_id with just a url to a business like so. I have the URL, which has a google plus ID inside the URL string, but I need the place id. I've tried searching via Google+ People:Get, which returns the business, but not the place id. I've searched extensively through the Places API for a solution, and have found nothing.
Is this possible through Google's APIs? They have two separate references and ids to the same place, and I'm not really sure why. I feel like it should be possible, and maybe I'm just missing something.
Google plus allows for the sharing of a url; and this gets added an activity as an attachment in the activity data. Is there a way when using Activities.Seach() to target the search to the attachment url? I can share a url on g+ and if the url is part of the comment of my post then I can then pull that post when using the activities.search; however if the url is only contained in the attachment, I can't pull any activities with that url. Is there something I'm missing? Any suggestions?
This is actually a known issue with google plus, one that has been requested quite a bit from the development community. https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=57
The only real option at this time it to get an aggregate count of +1s and shares as shown here: http://www.helmutgranda.com/2011/11/01/get-a-url-google-count-via-php/