Comments on: Tracking Clicks with GA Pt. 2: Basic Implementation http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:53:55 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Justin Cutroni http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Justin Cutroni Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:57:04 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-734 Hi Gavin, That regular expression is valid. As long as the value you've created using urchinTracker() or trackPageview() matches the reg ex then your exclude filter will work. Nice job excluding the extra traffic from the profile. Thanks for reading and thanks for the question. Justin Hi Gavin,

That regular expression is valid. As long as the value you’ve created using urchinTracker() or trackPageview() matches the reg ex then your exclude filter will work.

Nice job excluding the extra traffic from the profile.

Thanks for reading and thanks for the question.

Justin

]]> By: Gavin Doolan http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-733 Gavin Doolan Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:28:28 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-733 Hi Justin, If I am tracking interal links to on say a home page to see how effective they are and how often they are used and I wish to exclude the pageview inflation as a result. would I so something like this in my filter? /front_page_links/www\.mydomain\.com I'm still not a expert on filters. Thanks, Gavin. Hi Justin,
If I am tracking interal links to on say a home page to see how effective they are and how often they are used and I wish to exclude the pageview inflation as a result.

would I so something like this in my filter?

/front_page_links/www\.mydomain\.com

I’m still not a expert on filters.

Thanks,
Gavin.

]]> By: Justin http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-732 Justin Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:18:01 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-732 Hi Hilario, The <a href="http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/04/09/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-3-advanced-implementation/" rel="nofollow">next post</a> in this series has a sample script. Thanks for reading! Justin Hi Hilario,

The next post in this series has a sample script.

Thanks for reading!

Justin

]]> By: Hilario http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-731 Hilario Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:04:48 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-731 Hi Justin, Could you give me an example of the "DOM Script" that you are refering to.. or a link on the internet which will have more information about the same thanks Hilario Hi Justin,

Could you give me an example of the “DOM Script” that you are refering to.. or a link on the internet which will have more information about the same

thanks
Hilario

]]> By: Justin http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-730 Justin Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:35:45 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-730 Hi Hilario, I'm not sure if your entire comment was posted. It seems like the last line or so is missing. I'm guessing that you tried to post some JavaScript in your comment, which is not possible. To track an image when it loads in a page is difficult. The onLoad event is not a valid event attribute for the image tag, so you can't add the urchinTracker() function to that event attribute. You could try to create some type of DOM script that executes when the page loads and dynamically calls urchinTracker() during the page load. I'm not sure if that will work for you, but it's a thought. Hope that helps, Justin Hi Hilario,

I’m not sure if your entire comment was posted. It seems like the last line or so is missing. I’m guessing that you tried to post some JavaScript in your comment, which is not possible.

To track an image when it loads in a page is difficult. The onLoad event is not a valid event attribute for the image tag, so you can’t add the urchinTracker() function to that event attribute. You could try to create some type of DOM script that executes when the page loads and dynamically calls urchinTracker() during the page load. I’m not sure if that will work for you, but it’s a thought.

Hope that helps,

Justin

]]> By: Hilario http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-729 Hilario Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:20:33 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-729 I need to track the image on a page BUT not when it is clicked (as referenced above with onclick) but when the page itself which contains the image is opened. The image for all practical purposes may be a tiny invisible image. The reason for using an Image is because I cant use javascript or any kind of script. Hence what modification would I need to do to this line and would that only suffice: I need to track the image on a page BUT not when it is clicked (as referenced above with onclick) but when the page itself which contains the image is opened. The image for all practical purposes may be a tiny invisible image.

The reason for using an Image is because I cant use javascript or any kind of script.

Hence what modification would I need to do to this line and would that only suffice:

]]> By: Increasing your Website’s Conversion Rate » Blog Archive » Judah Phillips on Rich Internet Apps for Beginners, Part II of III: Google Analytics http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-728 Increasing your Website’s Conversion Rate » Blog Archive » Judah Phillips on Rich Internet Apps for Beginners, Part II of III: Google Analytics Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:38:58 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-728 [...] Before you read this post, you might want to read a post that Justin Cutroni published on Saturday night. He wrote about tracking clicks to pages where you make the name up, because you can’t put the code on the page. Links that take you off the page, .pdfs, etc. It is a good basis for what Judah is going to talk about: creating page names out of thin air and then using the pretend pages to track events (and hence, rich media) in GA. So here we are, lucky again to have Judah Phillips: Since we all know about page tags, let’s get down to business with “the Google” and how it tracks “the Rich Media:” [...] [...] Before you read this post, you might want to read a post that Justin Cutroni published on Saturday night. He wrote about tracking clicks to pages where you make the name up, because you can’t put the code on the page. Links that take you off the page, .pdfs, etc. It is a good basis for what Judah is going to talk about: creating page names out of thin air and then using the pretend pages to track events (and hence, rich media) in GA. So here we are, lucky again to have Judah Phillips: Since we all know about page tags, let’s get down to business with “the Google” and how it tracks “the Rich Media:” [...]

]]> By: Analytics Talk » Tracking Clicks with GA Pt. 3: Advanced Implementation http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-727 Analytics Talk » Tracking Clicks with GA Pt. 3: Advanced Implementation Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:00:17 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-727 [...] Welcome to Part 3 of Tracking Clicks with Google Analytics! Last time I discussed the process and theory behind tracking visitor click data in GA. This technique is primarily used to track non-HTML files and outbound links. In this post we’ll discuss a quicker, easier way to implement the click tracking. Please make sure you’ve read Part 2 before reading this post. [...] [...] Welcome to Part 3 of Tracking Clicks with Google Analytics! Last time I discussed the process and theory behind tracking visitor click data in GA. This technique is primarily used to track non-HTML files and outbound links. In this post we’ll discuss a quicker, easier way to implement the click tracking. Please make sure you’ve read Part 2 before reading this post. [...]

]]> By: Brad Warthan http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-726 Brad Warthan Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:52:10 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-726 Great write up. Very useful! Great write up. Very useful!

]]> By: Justin http://cutroni.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-725 Justin Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:34:27 +0000 http://www.epikone.com/blog/2007/03/23/tracking-clicks-with-ga-pt-2-basic-implementation/#comment-725 Hi Deborah, Yes I have! That's actually the very next post in the series! Justin Hi Deborah,

Yes I have! That’s actually the very next post in the series!

Justin

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