Trying to enable GA tracking with some social sharing buttons...
We have the following:
- Facebook
- Twitter
- LinkedIn
- Stumble Upon
I have all working except Stumble Upon!! Basically, I just need to bind into an event that someone has completed their interaction. Their documentation is horrible.
Anyone know if this is possible?
short answer: I do not believe this is possible.
long answer: I've combed through their docs and many sites trying to do the same thing to no avail. Some services like AddThis are tracking it in some form or fashion but there is nothing that would lead me to believe they are doing so in a non-hack way. It might be possible work through their STMBLPN.Widget javascript in firebug or some developer tool to reverse engineer a solution. I tried but was unsuccessful. Even if you are though, since its not officially supported your code will break if they decide to change what you are relying on.
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Essentially, I'm concerned that a single user can be counted twice. Is there a best practice, etc. I've tried googling and I'm not sure if I'm just not asking the right question with the right words. Platform is on sitecore.
Using the same property to track AMP and non-AMP pages will result in multiple users. See here for Google's recommendation.
Though looks like you can use the Google AMP Client ID API to work around this.
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 have a wordpress voucher code website and working with most important affiliate platforms (Traetracker, Tradedoubles, Webgains, Beelbon, Awin).
I would like to track in real time when a commision is generated with GA and FB Pixel and im not able to do this.
Could anyone give me any clue?
Thx
You can set up facbook pixel tracking using this plugin
I've used it in the past to track FB pixel. As for GA, there are multiple plugins to do this.
We (the company i work for) used Monster Insights from Yoast. Monster Insights
There isn't much point reinventing the wheel and both work well. The only issue i ever encountered was with the FB Pixel. There was a jQuery conflict. AFAIK it has been fixed since.
#bogski87 thanks for the answer but think that plugins dont configure the affiliate callback.
I Know that, for example, in webgains you can configure a callback page where by post or get the platform sends transaction data in real time. I think this is the way but dont know how to configure that callbacks correctly.
What people are doing is basically taking the UA-XXXXXX code that you normally get with analytics, and they are generating calls against it. This is skewing my analytics stats. On top of that, in Google WebMaster tools, it's also causing this:
It looks like somehow these pages, with my code on or at least with the generated code on, is making Google Webmaster tools think I have lots of 404's. This can't possibly be good for my rankings.
Anyone know if there is anything you can do to stop this?
Try making async call from your server end using CURL.That way you will never expose your GA code.
I have not implemented it, but it might work as per theory
Since you can filter by custom dimensions you can set a "token" in a custom dimension on every page and filter out any traffic in your view settings that does not include the token.
Obviously this will not help against people who use the code from your website (unless you also implement shahmanthan9s suggestion - which is a lot of work but will give you cleaner data), but it will work against drive-by shooters who randomly select UAIDs to send data to (which is the situation you refer to in your comment).
Can you suggest a very very simple issue tracking widget. UserVoice, is a little too involved for us with their forums and what not. What we want is something that just allows people to send us an issue or note and grabs a URL.
If by widget you mean something that you can embed on your page that will allow visitors to leave feedback/issues, there are javascript plugins, like feedback_me that will allow posting feedback to a backend provided by you.
If your are not comfortable with supplying a backend of your own, there are of course countless products that will do basic stuff for you and more. This is list by no means complete, but it's a start:
Usersnap
Trackduck
Marker
Userback
Bugmuncher
Doorbell
Hava a look at userrules.com
It allows you to integrate to your internal Issue Tracking system (JIRA, BugZilla, Redmine, Basecamp etc.). Any feedback from your customers come, you can directly export it to ur external system. And it will keep track of its progress for you.
Liked, what they have done with their UI, plus you can add your own customizable fields to ask some specific info from your customers in the feedback widget.
Getsatisfaction? BitBucket? Github? Google Code? All have issue trackers and, except for that last one, allow you to keep your code private, but your issues public.