Currently Im using 301 redirects for affiliate links in Ghost CMS. But with ghostboard analytics I can not seem to track traffic.
So two questions. Is there a better way for affiliate links within Ghost?
And how can I track these in a right way?
Thank you!
I did this by connecting the website to Cloudflare, then served Google Analytics through Zaraz (available in free plan).
After this, I set up a click listener for website links with rel=nofollow (a[rel="nofollow"] selector) for tracking affiliate link clicks in Google Analytics without additional software.
Note: New Google Analytics (4) may require some experimentation to see clicks. Set up trigger in Zaraz (Action Name > Event Name = "Aff Click Track Property: href") for GA to create a new event and easily track clicks in Google Analytics.
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I have a problem with google analytics and stripe checkout where all goal completions are attributed to checkout.stripe.com, instead of the actual referring website.
I am using Google Analytics UA and have the Global site tag on all pages. Then I have a goal to track the success page, which stripe checkout redirects to upon successful completion.
User flow:
Website visitor comes from one of the referral pages.
Then they click on the stripe checkout button, which takes them to a stripe hosted page.
On stripe hosted checkout page, enter payment info.
Upon successful payment, redirected to success.html (which is the goal being tracked in analytics).
So when a user goes to success.html, Google analytics attributes the goal completion to stripe checkout, instead of the website that referred them to my site in the first place.
Has anyone else experienced this? Am I doing something wrong or is this just how Google Analytics works when using Stripe Checkout?
This seems like a GA configuration issue rather than Stripe. I'm not really familiar with GA, but if there's some way you can override the attribution, Stripe Checkout lets you set your success_url dynamically. For example, for each customer sent to Checkout, you could include the original referrer in the success URL they'd ultimately be sent to, in addition to getting the Checkout session ID in case you'd like to retrieve some session data (like metadata):
success_url: "http://example.com/success.html?original_referral=ref_123&session_id={CHECKOUT_SESSION_ID}",
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/custom-success-page#modify-success-url
not sure if you have solved this yet but you can block certain referral urls. Go to analytics go to admin> set up assistant > tag installation> click on your data stream > more tagging settings > list unwanted referrals> then from there just exclude the url you don't want tracked so in your case it's checkout.stripe.com
I have a magento store. There is a button on product Page which gives option to customer to buy the same product from another website.
If the user redirects from my store to other website, and buys product from other website, I want to track this using Google Analytics.
Being new to Google analytics, I don't know what's the best way to implement that functionality. Please help.
You can measure the click on the button to GO to the other website.
To measure if they buy something there you should add an event on the other website that send the ga data to your own UA id..
Is it possible to track clicks on other websites, which I have no ownership? The Google analytics can be used to track the activities on my own website. But I would need to track if user clicked on the link on an external website.
Any help would be appreciated.
No, you can not track external websites. However you can track an event, if the user clicks on a link on your homepage which leads to an external page. Or you can track the referral information, which tells you where the user came from.
An easy way to track outbound link clicks is with autotrack using its outboundLinkTracker plugin.
I want to track outbound clicks from different rss feeds which are fetched and displayed as links on my site. (popurls.com type site)
Is there a way to do this? Thanks
You could use a platform such as Google Analytics, which would handle all this for you.
That link is to a support page with instructions on link tracking.
I would like to track clicks and views of banners on my website to give statistics to the advertisers. These banners are added via custom post type in Wordpress.
If I use the URL builder tool to generate that kind of URL: http://widget.newswire.ca/registration/submit_form_cnw.php?l=cafr&utm_source=fpjq&utm_medium=bigbox&utm_campaign=cnw is it ok?
I mean, is it the right way to do it?
Usually you use the URL builder tool when you have external campaigns like advertising on another sites, sharing links on social media, etc. It's normal that your advertisers will give you the destination URL with the tracking parameters they want so they can monitor their performance in GA on their end.
In order to track clicks on the banners you host on your site you should use either virtual pageviews or event tracking:
Classic GA:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/asyncMigrationExamples#VirtualPageviews
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/asyncMigrationExamples#EventTracking
Universal Analytics:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/upgrade/reference/gajs-analyticsjs#virtual-pageviews
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events
You can add a small delay so GA has enough time to execute the code.