How do you analyze clicks on outbound links?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by jahangir, Jan 18, 2011.

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    I use google analytics given code with links that look like this

    <a href="http://www.abc.com/" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/link1');" >link title </a>

    But on the site where I am using this code I see no clicks on links/banners which is kind of impossible because that site is very busy site and people must be clicking on the links.

    I think this code is no more working, may be google has stopped supporting this code... etc

    What method do you use to analyze clicks on outbound links?
     
    jahangir, Jan 18, 2011 IP
  2. etia86

    etia86 Active Member

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    I use google analytic. i think it is still valid until now.

    https://www.google.com/analytics
     
    etia86, Jan 18, 2011 IP
  3. jahangir

    jahangir Peon

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    ^ How do you use google analytics? Would you care to share?
     
    jahangir, Jan 18, 2011 IP
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    I used to exclusively use Google Analytics. Recently installed Woopra which is highly addictive.
     
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    joebert Well-Known Member

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    I used to have the same problem a couple of years ago. What I did was force the Javascript event to resolve before the visitor could navigate away from the page by using "return".

    <a href="..." onclick="return pageTracker._trackEvent('Outbound', 'Outbound:domain.com') ? true : true;">
    Code (markup):
     
    joebert, Jan 21, 2011 IP