Comments on: How to count your outbound click stats with onclick in Google Analytics

By: Professeur des écoles

Professeur des écoles — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:14:58 +0000

Cool, thanks so much for the detailed instructions

By: richardbaxterseo

richardbaxterseo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:43:33 +0000

@Leandro @Les

Thanks guys for clarifying that (very useful) addition to this post. Your comments are much appreciated!

Thanks, Richard

By: Les

Les — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:58:21 +0000

My hometown!

By: Leandro

Leandro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:57:30 +0000

I’m in Montreal.

By: Les

Les — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:36:17 +0000

You are very welcome. The code should work just fine.

Yes, I am in Ottawa.

You?

By: Leandro

Leandro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:20:20 +0000

@Les
Thanks a million! I’ll test it in a test site and as soon as I check it works OK I’ll put on the main site as well.
BTW, I suppose you’re also based in Canada (although I run a brazilian site)

By: Les

Les — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:54:10 +0000

Simple enough: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55526

Read the entire article.

For a Flash Banner Ad — See below:

The equivalent code for a Flash banner is provided below:
on(release) {
getURL(“javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview
(‘/bannerads/advertisername/bannername’);”);
getURL(“http://http://www.feiradelogistica.com/”);
}

By: Leandro

Leandro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:47:00 +0000

@Les
I don’t think the absolute path to the file is important, is it?

By: Leandro

Leandro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:45:26 +0000

@Les
it’s the banner on the bottom of my site (link to my site on my nick here)
I’m negotiating an important one to the header, an tracking it would be very nice.

By: Les

Les — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:41:10 +0000

@Leandro. Can you please post a link to what you want to track?

By: Leandro

Leandro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:37:36 +0000

@Les from what I understood I’d use that to build the flash file. In my case it’s given, I just want to know how many people click on it (an ad on my blog)

By: Les

Les — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:00:59 +0000

@Leandro: This article may help you with tracking Flash in GA: http://www.webfuel.ca/qct

By: Leandro

Leandro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:54:10 +0000

Hello,
Any idea on how to track clicks on swf flash files? Maybe a plugin for WP would help too.
Tks

By: Onore

Onore — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:18:39 +0000

Thanks Richardbaxterseo.
In Google Help very much information about traking.
In this articles is simple and clear for understanding.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:53:03 +0000

Thanks, will certainly try this out and let you know how it goes. Tom

By: DSampaolo

DSampaolo — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:19:05 +0000

Hey Tom, your answer has been given by Eduardo Cereto: use Events instead of Pageviews (code to be found in the comments).
Thank you all for this very helpful post and comments.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:28:24 +0000

Hi Guys, anybody know if there is a way to stop outbound links diluting your overall number of uniques/pv’s etc. I’m experimenting with adding this in…any help appreciated. Tom

By: Les

Les — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:23:49 +0000

This is awesome. I have been fiddling with this for an hour and cannot get the code to work. I had forgotten that Yoast’s plugin tracked these events. Then I realized that I was hardcoding in the sidebar and things wouldn’t track properly anyways!

Super duper!

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:14:06 +0000

Very slick and easy. Thank you.

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:37:37 +0000

Works fine! Thanks!