I have given an option to my users to share my website on whatsapp. And I want to know how many users land back on the website using the shared link. Hence, the shared button opens this link:
https://wa.me/919876543210?text=https://www.mywebsite.com?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=share
But this URL considers the end &utm_medium=share as a part of the wa.me URL, and shares only https://www.mywebsite.com?utm_source=whatsapp on WhatsApp. So instead I did this:
https://wa.me/919876543210?text=https://www.mywebsite.com?utm_source=whatsapp%26utm_medium=share
which shares the correct URL on whatsapp: https://www.mywebsite.com?utm_source=whatsapp%26utm_medium=share, but when I open it, the UTM params are not captured by GA.
What is the way out of this loop?
There's a more elegant way of doing it than utm params. Have something like: https://wa.me/919876543210?text=https://www.mywebsite.com?t=wa
See how now it's shorter and more elegant to a user? Now you have two good options.
Make a conditional redirect on your site from any url that has a t=we query param to whatever utm param you want with no restriction.
And even more elegantly: use GTM to parse pageviews where there's a t query parameter set, then make a neat lookup table where the input would be the value of t and the output - whatever you want to name it. Then use that lookup table's value to set your session-level custom dimension in pageviews.
Why a custom dimension and not UTM? Because when using UTMs, you're affecting your attribution. And sessions. You can easily override organic or paid attribution with some meaningless whatsapp attribution. Well, yes, if you don't use attribution at all and you don't care about GA session breakpoints, then sure, UTMs are just easier.
Also, try escaping the &, but not much hope there.
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I am trying to do a filter by urls but no result is being returned.
From the following doc, it shows it is possible https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/rules-and-filtering/overview/premium-operators
but I think it's a premium feature. Is this true? If yes then is there any other way to filter by urls without using the premium feature?
Standard Twitter streaming API provide us with 'track' parameter. This is a Standard streaming API parameter (see the doc). It matches Tweets as by phrases as by URLs. A common use case according to the doc:
a common use case where you may want to track all mentions of a particular domain name (i.e., regardless of subdomain or path), you should use “example com” as the track parameter for “example.com”
This parameter value Will match...:
example.comwww.example.com foo.example.com foo.example.com/bar I hope my startup isn’t merely another example of a dot com boom!
I tested the option by means of twitter-hbc library for Java. It works as expected!
To avoid confusion, please, take the note:
The text of the Tweet and some entity fields are considered for matches. Specifically, the text attribute of the Tweet, expanded_url and display_url for links and media, text for hashtags, and screen_name for user mentions are checked for matches.
Given below two links which point to the same page with same content. I'm just trying to give this page the right URL.
I can give it one of the following URLs.
http://www.mywebsite.com/help/topic/2001
or
http://www.mywebsite.com/help?topic=2001
Now, when a search engine sees this, what's the effect on the page's caching by the engine.
Do both link have the same effect or one of them can improvise the caching better.
That depends on the search engine. For example, Google will automatically try to guess if a URL parameter must be treated as a unique webpage, so in your scenario google will guess that the value of url parameter "topic" defines a page. Other search engines may fail on guessing this.
I think its better to use a url with no URL parameters, so its absolutely clear that a url is pointing to a unique page, instead of relying on the guessing ability of a search engine.
Specifically, google gives the ability to webmasters to manually set how a parameter will be treated. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1235687?hl=en
I need to put a link in D2L to an external website. When the user click the link, his username should be included in the url, something like: www.abc.com/index.aspx?username=user1
Is there any parameter that can allow me do that easily? Like: index.aspx?username={userid}
Thanks!
I believe that the user name of the currently-logged-in user is one of the replacement strings that you can use in links placed in the LMS' UI. However, replacement strings do not get processed in all the places you could put a link in the LMS: for example, if you write a link into a discussion thread post or the like, I'm not sure that a replacement string used there would get expanded.
If you search on the web for "Desire2Learn replacement strings", you'll find a variety of pages hosted by various educational institutions that document a list of replacement strings that might work for you (in fact, {UserName} seems to be the one you want).
You should be aware thought that when you use a replacement string in an outbound URL that sends the information in the clear through the network: you may want to do this with caution, for privacy/security reasons.
Whats the best practice to avoid hardcoding links in iOS apps?
I need to link to an external website that does a search based on the URL query string parameters.
Ex. "http://stackoverflow.com/search?q={query}"
I dont want to hardcode the actual url in my app because I don't want the app to break if the URL changes or the query string parameters change. I'd like to hardcode into my app:
"http://foobar.com?query=someString"
and then redirect that to my actual target, ie, "http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=someString"
I looked into URL shorteners (bit.ly, goo.gl, etc) but they dont allow me to change the target URL. Looks like a URL redirection service might work but I wasn't able to find one that handles query string parameters in the way I need.
How is this problem typically solved?
thanks!
Mark
Just add a text file (or similar) on your website with the URL(s) in it, fetch it occasionally from your app. Make the app parse the text file and use it to decide what URL it should fetch.
How do URL shorting sites like bit.ly or goo.gl work? Does anyone know what technique or algorithm they use?
Save the URL and generate unique key for the URL and store it in the DB. Use this key to navigate to the URL.
Do you need complex algorithm for this? :-)
If you want to make it complex.
Check for malicious URLs and block them
Have stats based on number of clicks
Have registrations and users have their own small urls
Develop plugins for browsers to generate short urls
etc etc