how to measure those clicks?

On my website I have some thumbnails redirecting to pictures on free pictures hosts. Is there some tool to measure number of clicks my users generate?
(there are too many of them to track them separately/manually)
any ideas?

 

If you read this article on advanced Google Analytics you can track exit clicks quite easily.

Hope this helps (its my blog).

 

correct me if I am wrong but this method measures only clicks on specific link (example.co.uk in your example) right? What I need is a way to measure unlimited sets of links that point outside my site. I have a lot of thumbnail galleries with are coded like this:

<a href="http://img121.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=30701_7_122_517lo.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img121.imagevenue.com/loc517/th_30701_7_122_517lo.jpg" class="foto"></a><br/>

Code (markup):

and I want to know how many people click the thumbnails.

 

If the thumbnails are generated from a database you could dynamicall include a parameter into the onclick instead of example.co.uk

For example use onclick(outgoing/item12);

 

I don't think I quite follow. The link codes are given by the free host. I have them in my database and the page is created dynamically but I want to know the clicks FROM my page, the clicks on specific thumbnails that are already listed in the form of codes I show above. So what would your parameter do?

 

If you had: urchinTracker ('/outgoing/images/img121.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=30701_7_122_517lo.jpg')

That should measure all the clicks so you can find out the most popular.

 

ok, now you've lost me completely. I thought that "/outgoing/example_co.uk" is only to attribute filename for GA listing.
Besides wouldn't I have to edit tags for all links anyway?

 

The outgoing/xxxxxxx is just a string, it can say anything you like.

You would have to edit the tags for all the links but if your site is database driven you should be able to do this quite quickly.

 

ok, let me make sure I understand:

let say I have 3 thumbnails:

is this how I should change them?

and I will be able to track them in GA panel searching for outgoing/xxxxxxxx? is that correct?

 

Yes, that will work.

I am working on creating a script that tracks all your links in GA without having to add the onclick code to each one. Subscribe to my BlogStorm blog and you will see it next week.

Patrick

 

wow, thanks a lot man. I sure will

cheers

 

i cant wait for this plugin

 

Its done. I didn't make a plugin as its pretty easy to add the code to all your pages.

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/blog/track-outgoing-links-with-google-analytics/