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need help with tracking 6 Months, 2 Weeks ago Karma: 0  
Hi!

I am using this module to display ads. however, i need to track the number of clicks/impression on each ads.

I understand this can work with google analytic, but there's no guide to show how this is done, can someone please show how this is done?

Thanks!
 
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Re:need help with tracking 6 Months, 2 Weeks ago Karma: 5  
Urchin - for use with the old google code
GA Pageview - tracking pages (see your analytics page)
GA Event - can be used with event tracking in your google account
 
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Re:need help with tracking 6 Months, 1 Week ago Karma: 0  
Yup adding on to what admin said the way to track outbound clicks is with the Google Analytics GA Event. In the miniadspot module enable this under the Enable Analytic tracking option. The module will then automatically add some javascript which for GA Event is like this,
<a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackEvent ('mycategory','click','Some Ad Name';" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" href="example.com/buyme"> etc etc

Then in your Google analytics you need to read code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/trac...entTrackerGuide.html to workout how to set that up.

As you can see the "category" is set as "mycategory" and this comes from the Miniadspot option, "Campaign group or Event" that you set. The "action" is fixed (by me) as "click" and the "optional_label" is the ad title/caption/name.

The only caveat is that I (who added this bit of code) hasn't tested this as much in anger as I would like to have done) so any feedback would be appreciated.
 
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