Hi, quick question: How Do I Turn Any Link Into A Google Analytics Goal ? i.e.: I want to know if a link (on a ppc landing page) is clicked or not. Thanks S.
A detailed step-by-step information is available here - google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55515
Hi BB-OM and thanks for your message. Did you read that page? Where exactly does it tell on how to create a goal to track clicks? I do not see it at all...
You can only setup 4 goals under each website profile. Depends on how many links you have on your site, you may need to setup multiple profiles to track each part of your website. A work around is to use "Custom Event". So each click on specific (or all) links will count towards a custom event. You probably knew about Custom event tracking already. But for the convenience of other readers, here's a link: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html
Hi! I try to add new goals but I can't track paypal sales because the user leave the page to pay. The main problem is that I can't track the order now button because certain visitor click on the order now button but quits on the paypal checkout page. How can I solve the problem?
I have looked at the URL you have sent and I must admit I at a loss...I can't figure this out. The help files are not that useful. Did you try yourself? Can you shed a light? Nobody seems to know how to track clicks...crazy ! There must be someone that needs to do that...
Hi Diane, I have tried and tried and I cannot find a way. Once I try to setup a goal it doesn;t give me the option to select how many times a link has been clicked on a landing page. This is not about placing code on a thank you page. We cannot do that on this website...
Hi I understand why you are confused. To setup goal you need a unique URL to use as the goal. A click are not registred by default in Google Analytics, so you need to do some smart stuff. To track a click on a link (or a mailto-link or a download; means clicking on a pdf-link) you need to use a thing called Virtual pageview. It means that you "trick" Google Analytics to track a pageview when a user click on a page. If you use the asynchronous code you can use this code: _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/click/the-rest-of-the-url-you-want-to-call-the-click']); You decide what you type as URL. You have 20 goals in total (the 4 goal limit mentioned earlier is an old thing - it changed in october 2009). If you want all click on external links as one goal, you just make the same start for the url, fx /click/affiliate/LINKNAME And then setup /click/affiliate/ as a regular expression goal. That should be it Cheers, and happy analyzing PS: If you like the answer please feel free to give me some happy reputation )