Comments on: 8 Tips for Tracking With Google

By: fields.marshall

fields.marshall — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:09:23 +0000

For the new asynch link code — check out this post ..

http://www.expertsem.com/2009/12/09/creating-virtual-pageviews-with-google-analytics-asynchronous-tracking/

By: Split Testing Software

Split Testing Software — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:40:19 +0000

[...] and set a goal in Google Analytics for all simliarly named link as I have explained here — http://fieldsmarshall.com/8-tips-for-tracking-with-google/ – and then either use the gocodes plugin or the pretty link plugin for wordpress – to [...]

By: fields.marshall

fields.marshall — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:11:02 +0000

Hi Marco,

check this plugin out also … It looks better than gocodes

http://blairwilliams.com/pretty-link/ I already have my system setup so I probably wont switch but it looks pretty cool

good luck

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:41:39 +0000

Good Morning Fields,
maybe I will have to start using the “normal” GoCodes. I will take a closer look at it – and if I find a way I let you know!
Have a good week – and thanks again!!
Take care -
Marco

By: fields.marshall

fields.marshall — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:36:16 +0000

Hi marco,

I am not seeing this work on your page I think because anything after the ? is technically a querystring and so a href.match only matches the hyperlink

http://forums.asp.net/p/1447719/3297106.aspx

There does not seem to be a way to match the query string easily that I know of but I know very little of jquery

too bad you cant do the standard way that gocodes normally work .. it appear you will half to embed javascript on each affilate redirect link onClick= pageTracker._trackPageview(); something like that

sorry I do not have easy answer for you

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:39:18 +0000

I just tried for the alert using Internet Explorer (normally FireFox) there it shows that the error occurs in the line 456 “pageTracker._trackPageview();”

> so i guess it might be still rather the code than the regular expression matching, what do you think?

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:33:09 +0000

Hello Fields,
(by the way – I didn´t quite figure out your first name was Fields in that combination. I guess you probably here that sometimes?!)

I tried to bite my way through the regular expression matching, but maybe I got the two slashes wrong. I now changed to (href.match(/anbieter/) and the regular expression matching to /anbieter/.+
hopefully that´ll do it.

Have a good weekend!

By: fields.marshall

fields.marshall — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:09:09 +0000

hi Macro

are you familiar with regular expression matching ?

that is what is going on there in the href.match() statement

change this line
href.match(/?anbieter=)

to href.match(/anbieter/) and you should see the alert .. you are almost there

Let me know if that works and if not contact me via the contact form and I could login to your wordpress system and adjust it but I think all you need to do lookin at you r page is to
change this line
href.match(/?anbieter=)

to href.match(/anbieter/)

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:04:13 +0000

Hm, hm… I don´t get it. The alert at least doesnt work.
And I forgot to say: Yes, I have a goal set up – and tried it in those different combinations like
/\?anbieter=.+
/anbieter/.+
/?anbieter=.+

the latter I try to use with “;if(href.match(/?anbieter=)” (since that is the typical part of the gocodes Links. (like for example: http:// www. partneragentur-vergleich.de/?anbieter=PartnerSite)

I somehow run out of ideas…

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:07:41 +0000

Hi!
It indeed did not work. Unfortunately once I put the line into the analyticator google analytics doesn´t track anything anymore.

I do use gocodes, but it is a modified version of that plugin. The bad part about that is, that I cant change the “?anbieter=” in “/anbieter/”. Do you think the parameters ? and = could cause Problems?

This alert idea is a good one, I´ll experiment with that and your suggestion of syntax.
thanx and take care!