I got this kind of URL in my site: /preinscripcion/231, the number is the code of a course and it is self generated by my CRM, the problem comes when I want to see to which course the person is trying to register, I have an excel with this codes but it is too demanding and cumbersome as I already have hundreds of courses, I've tried with advanced filters to change my code with the name of the course, but I can only make up to 100 filters.
¿Is there a way of doing it?
It does not have to be on analytics itself, my site is made under wordpress http://formarte.edu.co/
Thanks in advance for all of your help.
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I want to track particular links on my site to see where they come from. For example, I want to know which links on my navigation are being clicked, so if something is not being clicked I could potentially remove it.
I have been using UTM's, super easy, but results in skewed analytics data.
I looked into Google Tag Manager, but I don't want to slow down my website. I can change the site easily, so not sure if this is the best solution.
I found an article dated 2008 that says I can do this:
https://www.example.com/?from=topnav
Is that still valid? Is there a better way. I can't seem to find any information on this and assume somebody wants to acquire this information.
Thank you.
I have been using UTM's, super easy, but results in skewed analytics
data.
UTM codes are meant to track inbound traffic. Don't use them to track internal/outbound navigation, as it will seriously mess up your reporting.
I looked into Google Tag Manager, but I don't want to slow down my
website.
GTM is loading async, just like GA, so performance-wise they are equivalent.
I found an article dated 2008 that says I can do this:
https://www.example.com/?from=topnav
By default GA will not track link clicks. You can indeed add parameters to URLs and then use those to build custom reports and see which links are being clicked.
Since what you're trying to do is custom implementation, you won't find a single best answer, it's up to you to implement something that fits your needs. These are some examples:
https://analytical42.com/2017/track-internal-links-google-analytics-gtm/
https://www.gravitatedesign.com/blog/can-google-analytics-track-link-clicks/
I'm currently using woocommerce and by chance when looking through google search console I noticed well over 15,000 pages had been indexed. Instantly raised a concern because I know I should have no more than 400 actual pages.
After looking into it, I noticed that absolutely every possible parameters "variations, grid styles, shipping methods" etc is being indexed causing what is 400 into 15,000 variations.
Does this have an affect on google ranking showing 15,000 pages when really there are only 400.
I can not find a single resource that explains whether google indexing so many variations has a positive or negative impact on google rankings.
Finally how to prevent google or any other search engines from indexing url's with parameters. I've seen advice using robot.txt but no recommendation of what standard woocommerce filters should be excluded or if that's a bad idea?
I have a feeling I am losing alot of link juice by having so many indexed pages with parameters?
WordPress by default expects that you wish to share everything because why not? Surely if you have 15,000 items that are index-able surely you'd be more mad if your site decided on a whim to hide parts of that without you knowing. It is understandable that this would be confusing though, and quite rightly it is always better to have control over which parts of your site gets seen by search engines.
Anyway there are plugins which allow you to customise which parts of a website are visible or hidden to search engines by providing a mechanism for generating an XML site map (an index of which pages should be crawl-able). A very common plugin I see people use is called Yoast SEO. Another one I have had some success with is called Google XML Sitemaps, you may find another to work better for you, but that should give an idea of what you need.
Also if you are not getting visited often by google bot then take the sitemap from one of those types of plugins and submit via the google console to help google better understand your site.
I have a requirement to write a program in Java to retrieve all the posts from all the wordpress sites containing a keyword(s).
This is how I approached the problem. I initially thought I would crawl the wordpress sites looking for the keywords I am interested in. But I realized if there is an endpoint for wordpress search, it makes my job a lot easier. So I have looked around to see if there is any search endpoint to submit queries and get the links for the posts.
All I found is just http://wwww.en.search.wordpress.com. I can still tweak the url and get some links. But
I like to know if there is any better way to handle this problem
The search link I posted is for the users and it might be limiting my search results since I query it through a program
Also I like to retrieve posts from the given date range. I am not sure if this is possible with my approach.
Appreciate any help in this regard. Thank you.
How about this approach:
Assuming you don't need to go back to the history and scrap all the data I would just stick to tags
http://en.wordpress.com/tags/
I would crawl it every day get the most popular tags (by font size) then on each tag get the articles published in the past 24 hours
On each post get all the comments and search for your keywords
Would that work? if not please share more details
Good luck
I have been trying to get the Demographics and Interest Reports working on my many websites and for whatever reason I can't get the reports to validate with any of my wordpress sites. I can get them to work with my home grown ones but none of my WP.
According to GA I have to add the new code and of course turn the switch on to record that specific data (which I did) and works with my handmade sites.
I do not use any plugins for GA with Wordpress because its useless. I just place the code in the footer.php file in between
</body><--GACode--></html>
and works fine. I have tried to place the code all over my site including the footer, header and nothing seems to allow Google to validate the code. Anyone have any luck with this?
Have you tried skipping the validation?
Often when searching for information i hit the problem, that the author of an article/website/blog post doesnt give out a date.
Is there any way (maybe special meta search engine, web-archives, use of google search operators to find out at least on which month & year a website URL was uploaded?
thx
puttin
javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
in the adress bar of a browser with loaded page pops up a date and time. Where this time data is coming from i have no idea, probably time html or php file was created on server. On the other way i thought javascript cannot access filesystem, but im no expert...
Still curious if someone knows a reliable method of finding out when a specific .html site was created as i find it useful for enquiry.