Google Analytics tracking
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I have been told by my website developers (after the build) that visitor clicks directly on to an image that hyperlinks to a third party site cannot be tracked (typically this would be an advert). I need to track this activity for ROI disucssions with advertisers. I can't believe this can't be done on Concrete5 - Help please.
It is possible, just really annoying to do, and could break links... If google is tracking the site that the image goes it, it usually does a pretty good job of tracking the user.
Handleigh,
You may want to have your developer read the following from Google about how to get Analytics to track clicks on external links:
http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&am...
If that isn't possible, I would think that your only other alternative would be to have all external links make a call to some kind of page on your site... that would capture the information about where the link pointed to and what page they were on when the clicked it (or something like that)... and either add those values into the Google Analytics code or store them in the C5 database. You know... like on sites (often government sites) where you click a link and then you get a page/pop-up that says "You are now leaving the XXX website... click to continue or cancel to stay".
You probably wouldn't HAVE to display a page to them... the page that gets called could probably do all its magic "behind the scenes", without the user even knowing it was happening!
Now... as for the HOW you do something like that... that's beyond me. But, conceptually, it's a start! ;D
- John
You may want to have your developer read the following from Google about how to get Analytics to track clicks on external links:
http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&am...
If that isn't possible, I would think that your only other alternative would be to have all external links make a call to some kind of page on your site... that would capture the information about where the link pointed to and what page they were on when the clicked it (or something like that)... and either add those values into the Google Analytics code or store them in the C5 database. You know... like on sites (often government sites) where you click a link and then you get a page/pop-up that says "You are now leaving the XXX website... click to continue or cancel to stay".
You probably wouldn't HAVE to display a page to them... the page that gets called could probably do all its magic "behind the scenes", without the user even knowing it was happening!
Now... as for the HOW you do something like that... that's beyond me. But, conceptually, it's a start! ;D
- John
