PrettyLinks
How to integrate Pretty Links with AnyTrack and track your sales conversions in Google Analytics.
Pretty Links is a very popular Wordpress plugin that allows you to easily manage your affiliate links. It is widely used by affiliate marketers as it allows to streamline their affiliate link management.
The fact that Pretty Links does not track your conversions should not prevent you from using it.
Caution:
Unlike other link management plugins, Pretty Links lacks a global setting to enable Parameter Forwarding. Consequently, youβll need to manually update each link.
Link shorteners and link management plugins like Pretty Links do not track conversions, sales or revenues. They are useful to manage your affiliate links, and make your links look "prettier".
If you are not currently using a Wordpress plugin to manage your affiliate links, you should consider using the AnyTrack affiliate plugin management plugin.
Key Settings if you're familiar with PrettyLinks
- Enable parameter forwarding
- Remove Subid's from the redirect URLs
Create a Pretty Link
Good to know
Follow these steps to create a new Pretty Link
- Add a new link
- Select the redirect method 302 or 307
- Add the target URL and edit the slug
- Remove any subid parameter from the target URL as AnyTrack automatically adds it.
- Open the Advanced settings
- β οΈEnable parameter forwarding β οΈ
- Save / Publish the link
Update a Pretty Link
Good to know
Follow these steps to update your Pretty links.
- Go to your Pretty Links
- Edit a pretty link
- Open the Advance menu
- Enable Parameter forwarding
- Save / update the Pretty Link.
As opposed to other link management plugins, Pretty Links doesn't have a global setting for enabling Parameter Forwarding. So you will have to manually update each links.
Updated 15 days ago