Hot answers tagged click-tracking
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There's a difference between PPC clicks and the website visits reported in Google Analytics. A click gets logged as soon as LinkedIn redirects the user to your site. However, your page needs to load in the ga.js code from Google's servers and then send an image request back before the visit is recorded. This process sometimes doesn't complete. Here's a few ...
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Yes it's possible
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Use the "Navigation Summary" to work out which internal page a visitor reached your page from:
Choose 'Content' and then 'Content by Title' from the Analytics menu:
Click whichever page title you're interesting in learning more about:
Click the page URL in the Content Performance table:
Click 'Navigation Summary' under the 'Navigation Analysis' ...
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Yes, you can track just about anything using Google Analytics' Event Tracking - here's how you might do it for the two cases of (a) showing a link and (b) a user clicking the link:
(a) Track showing the link
<script type="text/javascript">
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Links', 'Shown', 'http://www.a.com/']);
</script>
(b) Track user clicking ...
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I personally use https://www.crazyegg.com/ they have a great service. For funneling you can use http://www.kissmetrics.com/ but it has a pricey tag on their service.
Not too sure about internal trackers.
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If you want capture the event keyboard Ctrl + F and continue with the opening of the standard searchbox of the browser, you could do this:
var KEY_CTRL = 17;
var KEY_f = 70;
var isReserved = false;
var useExclusiveKeyEvent = false;
var isNewSearchEvent = false;
/*THIS VARIABLE IS RENDERED BY SERVER SIDE*/
var clientRandomKey = ...
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LinkedIn's response sounds like a fair explanation of the difference you're seeing.
If you wanted a third datapoint to measure clicks on your ad, your could use bit.ly URLs in your LinkedIn ads to link to your site. Adding a '+' sign at the end of any bit.ly URL gives you a breakdown of the clickthrough. This has the added advantage that it doesn't require ...
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Google Analytic's "In-page" analytics feature is what you're after, I believe. It allows you to browse your website like any other user (within google analytics), and every link displays a number of vistitors that clicked that link (and a percentage) next to it. Handy for doing the exact type of analytics you mentioned.
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I tend to side with the previous respondents, but bounce rate and time-on-site do factor into organic listings so, depending on your hosting you may be able to block by IP if you are especially concerned about it.
That said, a bit of time and wisdom (as in less than 2 years...don't judge), has helped me realize that short-term fluctuations--be it ...
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Some server side tools:
AWStats
Webalizer
Wusage (used to be free but it looks like they've changed their model)
A key difference between server side analysis and javascript based analysis is that the js versions will fire a request when a user reloads a page in the browser cache. The server side versions will report only what comes to the server. ...
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If you are looking for free Google Analytics is your best bet. It not only gives you a what links where clicked on by name, but it also gives you what links were click on the page using a simple heat map. I say simple because it won't tell you where on the link that the user clicked on each page, just what % of the clicks on each link on a page. It ...
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