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.
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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 post quite a few news links that go to outside sources/websites and i'm just not sure if there's any point to adding custom campaign parameters (google analytics; utm) to those links. is there any kind of tracking that can be done on links that don't send people to my site?
You probably should not, unless you have some sort of affiliate deal with the other site and they ask to to add parameters to identify traffic you send to them.
But parameters in outgoing links will show up in the GA account of the linked site, not in your own, so this will be of no use to you.
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 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.