Link tracking

Using link tracking is an easy way for us to find out how people are getting to our download page. People might click over to our download page from any of a number of areas, and knowing the relative usage of those links can help us understand what materials we're producing are more effective than others.

{{admon/note | Use these links! | The following links are pre-created for you to use in your posts. Right-click the link and choose "Copy link location," then paste the link in your media.

Link	Goes to where?	Use this link where?
http://ur1.ca/03ajw	Download page	Blogs, status, microblogs (Identi.ca, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
http://ur1.ca/03akl	Join page	Blogs, status, microblogs (Identi.ca, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

Adding links

Each link should be constructed by adding ? to the URL, followed by a short code that includes:

• an indicator for the link source (such as the wiki release notes)
• an indicator for the Fedora release in specific (such as F41 for the final, or F41a for the Alpha test release)

So a link to get.fp.o from the one-page release notes would become http://get.fedoraproject.org/?opF41.

FAQ

I want to copy a link to my status update for social networking, or my blog.

If you're posting a status update to identi.ca, for example, use the link tracking code for status updates. Don't copy a link straight from an announcement that includes link tracking from the announcement. You can copy the link itself but remember to change the portion after the ? to instead use the st code for status updates and blogs, followed by the Fedora release version (such as F42a, F42b, or F42), like this:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?stF42a

I want to point people to the announcement from my blog. Should I use the announcement link tracking code?

The actual URL link itself is the announcement URL. Add the link tracking code for blogs, which would start with ?st and end with the Fedora release version, like this:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F42_release_announcement?stF42a

The codes

Additions to this table are welcome.

Link source	Code
Email announcements	an
Wiki announcements	wkan
Front page	fp
Front page of wiki	wkfp
The press release Red Hat makes	rhpr
http://redhat.com/fedora	rhf
Test phase release notes on wiki	wkrn
Official release notes	rn
Official installation guide	ig
One-page release notes	op
Status links (Identi.ca, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), blog posts, other social networking	st