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Tagged with click-tracking tracking
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The click URL variable in Google Tag Manager is always returning a Facebook URL rather than the actual clicked URL
Built-In {{Click Url}} Variable in GTM is returning www.facebook.com/tr and not the href or action value of the click. What could be going wrong?
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Can you track an event in Google Analytics when the phone call is made, as opposed to just when the user clicks on the number?
Here is how the flow on the website works:
There is a button called "show phone number"
Click the button and the phone number reveals "0850 XXX XXX"
Click the number and if you ...
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Can UTM tags be used for internal links tracking in Mixpanel?
I've always thought that using UTM parameters for internal links would significantly skew data (incorrect attribution and actual number of sessions), at least when Google Analytics is the engine ...
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How to identify all search engine bots and crawlers?
I'm recently doing keyword advertising on Bing, which also powers AOL and Yahoo searches, to promote a product. And I'm using a third-party tracker to track the clicks of my advertisements.
I found ...
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How To Track Outbound Clicks On Banner Ads Without GA
I cannot use Google Analytics or other premium analytics tools. I can only use AWStats or internal tracking with a PHP script or something like that.
First attempt:
I have already read about how to ...
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20-25 percent difference in view in between Facebook ad clicks are visible in Google Analytics [duplicate]
We advertise blog posts of our blogging website on facebook but there is a huge difference between Fb ad clicks and clicks available on Google analytics.
Few user has reported about this issue that ...
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Facebook Ads click tracking through url parameters/tags is it possible?
Is there something like ValueTrack for AdWords but for Facebook ads?
And I'm not talking about Google Analytics UTM tags.
Looking through documentation, brought me to some API documentation that is ...
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How can I use Google Analytics to track clicks on images and text?
Before setting my website up, I want to be able to setup Google Analytics correctly to track my requirements.
I am looking to be able to track clicks on images and text links that contain the same ...
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How to track in Google Analytics registrations coming from Google AdWords ads?
I created a campaign in Google AdWords and some ads in it and gave them URLs like
mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=x
mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=...
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Tracking clicks to my site from a link in an email (normal email, not a newsletter) using Google Analytics
We sometimes send out links to one part of our site that is password protected, at the moment what we are doing to check if the recipient clicks on it, is to not give them the password and when they ...
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In Google Analytics, show eCommerce order numbers based on first click attribution
Google Analytics usually reports everything based on last click attribution. However, GA recently added some reports to compare metrics based on different attribution models like first click.
Is it ...
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Discrepancies between visits recorded in analytics and clicks reported in AdWords
According to analytics, there were only 730 visits on the page. According to AdWords, there were about 1200 clicks on the ad.
How can I track what is going on? Shouldn't I have the same number of ...
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How do search engines treat out-tracked links
Some websites have out tracking / outgoing click tracking so that when you click on a link such as mysite.com on example.com you momentarily get taken to example.com/outgoing/mysite.com which then ...
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Track visitor use of "Ctrl + F" on a website?
Would it theoretically be possible to detect (e.g. via JavaScript) if a user queries a webpage with the Windows shortcut Ctrl + F, or the Mac-equivalent Command + F in their browser?
The first step ...
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Google analytics event tracking doesn't show the related revenue
We're tracking clicks on certain banners on a site using synchroneous tracking:
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\''+ ga_acc_code +'\');
pageTracker._trackEvent(\'click_1\', \'Home\', \'%title%\');
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Basic tracking of conversion from Adwords using referrer, is it possible? (both Ads in SERP and in Content Network)
Reading in AdWords Help it seems the only way to track clicks to my site from AdWords is to use the Google code snippet.
If I don't want to use such snippet, and simply track the referrer, can we say ...
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Find out where the user has come from -- previous page URL within the same site
Is it possible to use Google Analytics or a similar tool to track the users' inter-site click behaviour?
I'd like to know how many users clicked on certain links on a particular page which lead them ...
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