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 Apparently I need a 2 minute Analytics Gooru summary on exactly how to track external clicks at GA (using the new G Analytics code). I never did figure out the old one, and I'm looking for a quick fix, not a programming nightmare. It appears to me as if you still have to append every href with a tracking attribute? Is that really the case? Hope not ;) | ||
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May 6th It's pretty straightforward. What's below is taken directly from Google's Help section on tracking outbound links and is for the new tracking script: -- -- -- For example, to log every click on a particular link to www.example.com as a pageview for "/outgoing/example_com" you would add the following attribute to the link's <a href="http://www.example.com" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/example.com'); ">It is a good idea to log all of your outbound links into a logical directory structure as shown in the example. This way, you will be able to easily identify what pages visitors clicked on to leave your site. -- -- -- If you've got a large web site and want to apply it to all the links on your site it would take some time (unless you have access to a programmer who could write a few lines of code to change all the outbound links on your site). Hope that helps.  Reply
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May 7th Thanks, and yes, I'd seen that - but as you said, it's ridiculously complex and time consuming, and I simply do not believe that's the best they can do. It may be the best that they WILL do though, because people aren't screaming for it yet i guess, but for cryin' out loud, Mybloglog tracks "What Readers Clicked" on it's own, so why doesn't Google Analytics? That's ridiculous, IMO Actually, for one particular domain, I'd settle for a wildcard, to know that I sent X number of clicks to a certain domain, not matter what the final URL uis - anyone know if that's possible with GA? Reply
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March 25th I have never had to track outbound links before, but I remembered this being one of the big sales points about updating to the ga.js code. I took the time to revisit this feature and the consensus is that the new code does this automatically, with no extra programming. I do know that they were running this feature as a beta and if you are not currently getting this data, it may be a waiting game until the feature is fully released.
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