How do I track clicks to external sites from my page?

I have about 6 links I need to track that go to outbound websites (a partner of mine).

The only thing I could come up with is setting up an internal page (ex. outbound.htm) and then 301 redirecting "outbound.htm" to "www.example.com"

Would setting it up this way allow Google Analytics to track "clicks" to outbound.htm? Or would Google not even track the "visit" to the outbound.htm?

Any help would be MUCH appreciated!! Thanks!

-B

 

You can do this with http://www.crazyegg.com I think - it's very, very cool. Take a look for yourself. There's a free trial and all that kind of thing.

 

you can use this snippet to track outbound links with Google Analytics :

 

There's a couple ways to do it:
- All links point to a redirecting page (e.g. outbound.htm?out=www.example.com) which tracks whatever you wish
- Read it via your stats (e.g. awstats can provide some of this)
- Add javascript to track it (although some users may block)

I'm sure there's other ways as well,
Anita =)

 

I use MONTY's method for Google analytics and it works well.