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UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create. Campaign-, adgroup- and creative-level trackers have corresponding Campaign Structure Parameters, e.g. campaign, adgroup and creative. Here is what the firing rules look like for this tag:Event Equals gtm.linkClick: You will want to use this rule for ANY and ALL link click events.
There are several techniques to implement a URL shortening. Macro Name: element text Macro Type: Custom JavaScript Custom Javascript: The .textContent property is built into most browsers which is nice, but you can always adapt the macro to use innerHTML or innerText depending on your needs. In fact, just from YouTube’s 11 characters, it can encode the numbers from one to 73,786,976,294,838,206,464 in base64.
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