Create additional URL for page for ad testing

  • traveler

    (@visualeight)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    I have a page that has it’s own URL generated by wordpress, www.mydomain.com/page I am about to place ads on Facebook and also a postcard mailed via USPS and I want both of these ads to direct to the same single page. However, I want to know the %’s of who came from the postcard and who came from the FB ad.

    I know I can create a URL and redirect to a page using .htaccess; however, I need to have both these URL’s picked up by Google Analytics for testing. Is there a best practice on doing something like this? Can it be done without additional plugins/extensions?

    Thanks.

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  • George Appiah

    (@gappiah)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Can it be done without additional plugins/extensions?

    Not out of the box. You’ll have to write code in your active theme’s function.php file, or in a plugin to achieve this.

    A plugin is just code.

    If you have to ask, honestly, you’re better off using an existing plugin like Pretty Links, ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link, etc.

    Josh Kohlbach

    (@jkohlbach)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @visualeight,

    Josh here, I’m the founder of ThirstyAffiliates. Yes you could use our tool to do this.

    Create 2 new ThirstyAffiliates links, both with the same destination (your page). It will generate two URLs which 301 redirect to the destination. You can then use those two URLs in your campaigns.

    The free plugin has basic reporting included.

    Hope this helps!

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