Share posts url with prefix for GA measurement - wordpress

We have a Wordpress site with different permalink structures and we need a way to share different post links (via email newsletter) so we can measure via GA how many visits the site receives from mail users. We were thinking on adding a prefix like newsletter but we are open to other solutions.
Thanks in advance!

Best way is to use UTM-marks for Your links in e-mails, correctly marked.

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Best way to setup cross domain tracking between blog and e-commerce site?

I run a blog that has an e-commerce site attached to it. I want to use a separate root domain for the e-commerce site to debloat the site but also want to continue being able to attribute what content leads to sales.
I hear that I need to implement both sites under the same Property View. Is this advisable or should I create a separate property view?
Also, my biggest concern is how do I identify traffic that is solely going to the e-commerce site without being referred to from the blog site? Is there a way of filtering this out?
Thank you.
For the first question, the answer is "yes", by tracking everything in a Property (with the necessary setup), if a user lands on the blog from google search then he moves to the shop and buys, the sale will be organic.
For the second question, the answer is "you can see it with a segment". By creating a segment that excludes sessions (or users) who have seen the blog domain, you will only get those who landed and remained exclusively in the shop.

advertise on one wordpress site for woocommerce on another

I have multiple related wordpress sites. one of them has woocommerce.
is there a way to promote some of those products (maybe identified by category or new or something like that) on one of my non-woocommerce sites?
Like the way google adwords show products related to, but not actually productized on that site?
Thanks.
You could use the REST API and grab the info you want from any site that can query the API.
Enable the API:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-rest-api/
Tech Docs:
http://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/
Have you ever thought about embedding iframe?
You have 2 choices, one is by using REST API as #tachb mentioned and the other one is by embedding iframe.
So you can make a custom products page which has products only without header and footer on the woocommerce site.
After that you can embed the page on the other sites as an iframe.
And please don't forget to add target="_parent" attribute to your all links in iframe content as mentioned here and here.
Hope this will help you.

Using OpenGraph to pull content onto my site?

So a company I'm working with gets mentioned in the media from time to time (BBC & other big news sites).
Is anyone aware of fees / licenses we will need to use the content that BBC etc provides using OpenGraph and post that content on our site?
So essentially we want a little card on our site with the page title, OG image, URL and possibly the description, when the user clicks this it will open the original page/link on the original source site.
I can't see too much info out there other than sharing on facebook, not using OpenGraph on our site.
Can anyone share some knowledge? Cheers!
If I get your question correctly, you want to retrieve posts on the BBC site, scrape the information and show in your own site, right?
Does the site of BBC, and possible others, provide a feed where you can subscribe to? In that case, you could monitor that feed for any mentions of your company.
Alternatively, you can use one of Facebook's partners that use the Keyword Insights API. There you can set up monitoring for your company name and integrate with their API.

Count referrals from blog view to website view in social channel grouping

Would be most grateful for any advice on this.
I have two analytics views under the same profile:
Website (mywebsite.com)
Blog (mywebsite.com/blog)
The website view excludes all traffic to the blog folder and the blog view only looks at traffic within the blog folder.
I’d like to adjust the social channel grouping on the website view to ensure any referrals from the blog to the website are counted in the social channel. I set up a regex to target referrals from mywebsite.com/blog/* however it seems any clicks from the blog are currently being counted as direct traffic (perhaps due to the filter?).
Would very much appreciate any suggested solutions / implementations to achieve this.
Many thanks!

Building a "lecture notes" website with wordpress

I wish to build a "lecture notes" website using wordpress. And would love for any advice on what plugins to use, other considerations to have or website that perform a similar task with WP.
The website should have a form that will allow users to upload their lecture files. The results should be a new "post". When submitting the form, the users should be able to tag their subject matter so to allow others to search it.
I would search for a "Members" type plugin, that lets you really fine-tune the roles and capabilities of each user type. Then you can let your users sign up as "contributor" or other lower level, and then use the Posts as your notes pages. Each post would have the ability to upload a file (not sure what formats are accepted, you might need a doc/pdf type plugin for that). You could also narrow it down by pre-specifying categories. Then you could use the comments as a discussion forum for each "lecture". Depending on the depth of customization you wanted, this could be fairly easy, or extremely complicated. ;)
If the WordPress site is on wordpress.com, then you can set the site so that you can publish via email. You might create a separate category for each person that is going to post to the site. There are "shortcodes" (see WordPress Support page "post-by-email" below for a list) which can be added to each email that will direct that post to one or more categories [one category might distinguish the poster, while other categories might group postings by topics, etc.]. Another shortcode can make the posting a "draft" or "private", while I think the default is to make the posting live immediately. *If you post by email, then all posters do not have to have Admin access to the site, they just have to have the unique WP site email posting address. *If you want to try the "Audio Post" feature (call from any phone and enter unique WP site key code), I don't think there is a way for the caller to direct the audio posts to a category via the call. An admin would have to add the category to any audio posts later. **All WP site "categories" automatically have an RSS feed created for them, so each of your posters would have their own chronological list of postings.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/

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