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.
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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.
I am partnering with an email newsletter to include some url links I'd like to advertise.
Can someone advise on how I might get "click" stats on these url links? The links neither redirect to my website/app, and are just links to, for example, a youtube video.
I've gone down the rabbit hole of Google's Campaign URL builder and Google tags, but am admittedly lost as a complete beginner regarding Google Analytics, tracking, etc, so any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
With Google Analytics, the only way you can track clicks within is if you leverage UTMs and drive traffic to a site or property that you own. I believe the UTMs might translate to YouTube account but, again, you have to own the video.
There are ways of leveraging Universal Analytics tags, in the form of pixels, that only measure when an email is opened (and the picture is essentially downloaded). But this doesn’t relate to clicks.
More than likely you will need to either use a dedicated email platform with built in analytics, or subscribe to an email analytics service. Google Analytics won’t really be of any value to you.
I want to share links like www.domain.com/twitter/headline where twitter/headline represents the link I put in my twitter headline. Then I use something like nginx to configure what would happen. I want to redirect the source to an external page like a profile and I want to track how many people clicked the link with something like bitly or google analytics or does anyone know an elegant solution for my use case?
Problems with bitly
1. You can not have two links for the same destination. So let's pretend I have domain.com/twitter/a and domain.com/twitter/b and both redirect to two bitly links that forward to my linkedin profile. This does not work.
Problems with Google Analytics
1. ga is not made to track redirects. it can track where the traffic comes from but since I forward to external sources like linkedin I cannot put a ga code on my linkedin profile to do it.
I am not sure to understsand the entire flow.
You can use a service like anytrack.io.
it will track the incoming traffic landing on your page (very much like GA does), and
track the outbound clicks to wherever you send the visitors.
Then it will tie the events to your GA account.
Not sure if that's what you wanted to do...
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..
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.