I have been trying to use the URL builder to get more insight into how productive our links are. I build the url in the Google builder, and have linked it into emails and our website hyperlinks. However, nothing comes back to the analytics dashboard.
Specifically, I want a URL that I can use in an email campaign that when clicked will tally in our analytics dashboard. I have tried with this builder: https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/campaign-url-builder/ but nothing links back to our Acquisition - Campaigns report.
Is there a way that I have to manually link the campaign url to our dashbaord to get it tracked and reported?
Thanks,
learningtheropes
Usually, it's not a URL builder issue, but a redirect that you have on your website, that "resets" the session and ignores your UTM's.
BTW, try using this extension instead
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics-url-buil/gaidpiakchgkapdgbnoglpnbccdepnpk
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I created a random sheet and then clicked publish to publish this google sheet publicly but for some reason when i click on my public link after signing out it will ask me to login again. This did not happen in the past. Has something changed with google sheet?
FYI i am not restricting access to anything or anyone i am publishing this as a public link but not able to access the link if i am not signed in.
I suggest others try it out and see if they get a different result or maybe there is restrictions on my account.
This is an ongoing issue that started yesterday. At my workplace, we are using it for years now. But suddenly the scripts started failing. HTML output is working fine but CSV, TSV formats are asking for login.
A temporary fix would be to change the sharing permission of the spreadsheet to Anyone on the Internet.
Issues started popping up on google support:
https://support.google.com/drive/thread/83705117?hl=en
https://support.google.com/docs/thread/83645178?hl=en
https://support.google.com/docs/thread/83744355?hl=en
https://support.google.com/drive/thread/83700244?hl=en
No solution or reply from the google team yet!!
not to sure, but when your posting, there should be a new option that lets you grant and restrict access. from the screen shot you provided, it should be somewhere in the "published content & settings" section at the bottom of the publish screen. once you do that it should open the access options and youll be able to allow anyone to view the document. The link you provided is still coming up as access denied. Let me know if you need more help and ill provide some pics and more details.
I can confirm that we experienced the same error yesterday - out of the blue our export scripts started failing.
We only experience this with CSV/TSV published Google Sheets, and we also made sure that there are no viewing restrictions whatsoever. If I publish as a website, I can still open that anonymously in a browser.
This is however useless as the data was being parsed as CSV.
A workaround is the following:
Click the Share button.
Click get link section of the modal.
Make sure "Anyone with the link" is selected.
Copy the URL and click done.
Post-fix URL with: /export?format=csv&gid=0
If you need a specific sheet, find the gid by clicking on that sheet in your browser and copying the gid from your browser's url. gid=0 is the first sheet.
Adjust all of your bash scripts with the new URL.
Enjoy!
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In my Google analytics account, All data view is recording URL after URI. When I click on the page it shows not found. I am attaching a screenshot.
You have the domain after the URI...
/my-account/skillatwill.com
should be:
skillatwill.com/my-account/
Surely this is a problem.
Then, if you hang the domain on your URI, when you click to open the Analytics page, it will hang it up again, so it will still give you an error. The click function to open the pages works only if you save in Analytics the URI without the domain.
I'm building a facebook app which uses open graph to publish stories. I can successfully publish the stories but what I want to do is to customize the app link in the story(circled in the given image).
Currently my link to "posted via APP_NAME" is referring to the Facebook appcenter page of my app. All I want to do is to customize the link and make it refer to my personal website. How can I do that?
Do I have to specify any extra parameters while making a POST request to facebook??
As far as I know this link leads to one of:
Canvas URL if you have a canvas app
Site URL if you have no canvas app just website with fb login
You can set both in App Settings (https://developers.facebook.com/apps/)
Looking through the logs it's impossible to distinguish it from people just accessing the app.
Add a canvas application with an address of page with this code:
<script>top.location.href = 'http://your-website.com'</script>
I am an ios app developer. We have implemented a custom URL scheme 'my_app://section_name' or so where if the link is opened in the user's mobile browser, it will redirect the user to a specific section in the app.
We would like to be able to tweet these URLs and have users on their mobile device click on them to open up the app, however it just can click once
(when you click close , maybe you click wrong then you want to click it second but it does not work )
I hope this isn't too silly of a question. Thanks
Make sure to check the tweet body after it have been posted.
This may be due of an URL shortener, especially if the tweet is posted from the iOS 5 Twitter framework.
I'm having a similar issue with url schemes. We can include them in emails and text messages, and they highlight and work properly.
Unfortunately, when we do the same with a tweet, the iOS Twitter client fails to recognise the special URL scheme and so the user cannot tap on it to open our app.
Pretty big oversight, methinks. Anyone else had any joy including special URL scheme links in tweets?
A solution that you should consider involves not sharing the URI scheme directly, but rather creating a page on your web server to handle this. In fact, if you want to be able to share full URI schemes with paths, you're better off building a web server to dynamically generate a page with a URI scheme redirect.
This is a over-simplified representation of what we built at Branch. This includes some code to get you started though the web server will require a bit of setup not described here.
instead of testapp://some.data.here, you'll link to http://yoursite.com/hosted-redirect/some.data.here.
your server should listen at the route /hosted-redirect, grab some.data.here and build the following page (body here):
(source: derrrick.com)
So your server will have to generate and respond with this page, filling in some.data.here, anytime http://yoursite.com/hosted-redirect/some.data.here is requested.
A lightweight node app could do this with a single file.
I added to my iOS application option to detect and response to custom URL schemes to launch application ( http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-application-via-a-custom-url-scheme.html ).
Link is working perfectly on different sites (using href), but I'm having problem with Facebook. If I'm trying to post link (using Graph API) which looks like:
myapp://blabla
Facebook return error:
The url you supplied is invalid
And for feed with link return
link URL is not properly formatted.
I can't just post url as a message because it's not being detected as a URL and appear like text only.
Is there any way to post to Facebook wall with custom links?
Edit:
I have an idea, but I don't know if it gonna work. Putting
myapp://blabla directly into address field in mobile browser is launching application so probably accessing an webpage (like http://www.mywebpage/myapp) with only redirection to
myapp://blabla gonna work too, but is Facebook gonna accept that link?
I think your suggestion in the edit is the correct method, and should work. However applications like spotify seem to use an intersticial page which fires the "app link" with javascript, the advantage to this approach is that you can use that page to "sell" the app to users who don't have it and also provide lovely open graph tags for people who want to share it.