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goodlife4u
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:37 pm
Post subject: Stat Counters?
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| Anyone know a stat counter that can actually track how many people click on which links on my website? |
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topaffiliateprogram
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:12 pm
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the best counter till now i have found is . statscounter.com
they give you links to Exit pages ...
but i donot know any counter which monitor activities like which referral link users clicked .
you should try affiliare network which give you access to refferal pages , it will solve your problem .
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Lynn Quario
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:02 am
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I agree Statcounter is the best for keeping track of page views but you might want to invest in an adtracking program for your links with in your website. I use Adtrackz but you have to know how to install on your own server. There are programs that you don't have to install but charge a monthly fee Clickalyzer is one.
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Eugen
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:11 am
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I recently started using Google Analytics and I'm more than happy with it.
Regarding your question, it has "Site overlay" feature where it displays your website and it highlights every link, displaying for each how many times it has been clicked, the percentage of the overall clicks, etc.
I still have to discover new features of it. It helps you better optimize your pages.
If you're not paranoic about Google knowing all this stuff about your sites, then I thing you should go for it.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:21 am
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I actually use both statcounter and analytics,
I think statcounter gives a better quick overview, analytics is better at drilling down to each specific visitor
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psiho
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:21 am
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You allready got your answer but since you wanted specifically to count clicks on links on your website I wanted to add my 2c.
About a year ago I published a small online directory and started playing with Google Analytics. On of the things I needed was exactly that - counting clicks on links in my directory. I changed my directory script a bit to include Google's onClick event on my outgoing links and it works like a charm. You can assign "virtual" name for any link on your website and use it later in your statistics to filter results (or more). So I named each of my outgoing links like 'outgoing/directory/category_name/www.something.com' and then I can do a lot of interesting reports like number of clicks on each link, number of clicks on links in each category, number of clicks in directory, etc. |
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AllanGardyne
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:23 am
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| psiho wrote: | | You can assign "virtual" name for any link on your website and use it later in your statistics to filter results (or more). |
I'm curious. Did you use this information in a practical way to increase profits. Did you find out what your visitors are interested in and then... what?
I'm asking because I know I ought to be doing more tracking and tweaking and testing than I do. One day.
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baumann93
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:27 pm
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| psiho wrote: | | I changed my directory script a bit to include Google's onClick event on my outgoing links and it works like a charm. You can assign "virtual" name for any link on your website and use it later in your statistics to filter results (or more). So I named each of my outgoing links like 'outgoing/directory/category_name/www.something.com' and then I can do a lot of interesting reports like number of clicks on each link, number of clicks on links in each category, number of clicks in directory, etc. |
Thanks a lot for posting this info. I have been using Google Analytics for quite some time but never used this feature. One question though, does this slow down the site?
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goodlife4u
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:13 pm
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| what do you have to type in the html to get google to track your links? |
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psiho
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:41 am
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I didn't expect that much Qs on my post and I was away
| AllanGardyne wrote: | | I'm curious. Did you use this information in a practical way to increase profits.Did you find out what your visitors are interested in and then... what? |
Well, I don't make much profit yet, about 300-400$ but I used this info to:
a) find out what categories on my directory are most interesting to my visitors
b) attract other websites to join: created monthly top10 clicks list
c) I used the word "affiliate" in name of virtual outbound link (only those that are affiliate links) - used it to setup "Goals" in analytics so clicks on affiliate links are now setup as my goals. This enabled me to monitor my AdWords campaigns more closely because now I can track how many AdWords clicks resulted in goals. I used this data to fine-tune AdWord campaign and linkexchange campaigns because some produced a lot of clicks but no goals achieved.
| baumann93 wrote: | | One question though, does this slow down the site? |
I don't see how this could slow down the site. Google Analytics only load a single js file and that is cashed, executed client side although it does contact server to send some data, but I'm not an expert in that field. I can only say that I never noticed any difference in speed for at least 15 sites that I'm using it on at work and at home.
| goodlife4u wrote: | | what do you have to type in the html to get google to track your links? |
Google Analytics has really great online help (Also a good part called "Conversion University"). You can find everything there about tracking outbound links. Direct link to that article is: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27246
BTW, Google Analytics is huge and complexed if you're used to simple statcounters and hitcounters. Do not give up on any feature you need and maybe think that Google analytics can't do - a lot can be done and I'm learning new tricks every day but a lot of reading and experimenting needs to be done. |
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AllanGardyne
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:21 am
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| psiho wrote: | | I used the word "affiliate" in name of virtual outbound link (only those that are affiliate links) - used it to setup "Goals" in analytics so clicks on affiliate links are now setup as my goals. This enabled me to monitor my AdWords campaigns more closely because now I can track how many AdWords clicks resulted in goals. |
Scoring goals! Good one!
Have you figured out a way to use Google Analytics to track the results of different keywords you're buying in AdWords?
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psiho
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:34 pm
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| AllanGardyne wrote: | | Have you figured out a way to use Google Analytics to track the results of different keywords you're buying in AdWords? |
Of course. I thought that was what I said. Maybe I was not clear or I misunderstood your question.
Once you setup your outbound affiliate links as goals, each click on affiliate link becomes a goal achieved. In Goolge Analytics, you can make reports of conversion rates (clicks converted to goals) for every marketing campaign weather it is AdWords, Referrals or some of your email campaigns. So you can calculate what I call CPG (Cost per goal). YOu can get CPG for every keyword in your AdWords because AdWords and Google analytics integrate easily (just a few clicks in options to turn it on).
Now, the last problem that I cannot solve and that would make this perfect is to know actual cost per sale. Because goal in my case is not the sale itself, it is only a visit to affiliate website/product. In my case it is impossible because I cannot get information from affiliate shopping basket of how much money I have earned. However, there are some affiliate programs that seem to integrate with Google Conversion tools (RegNow.com) but I didn't test it yet because my site is not about software.
Second option to try and get closer is to use Google Analytics feature of "estimated" value of the goal achieved. Basically you enter $ that goal is worth to you (I guess you want to calculate it here like total_money_earned_from_affiliate / number_of_clicks_on_affiliate_link). Them Google will use that $ in ROI estimation. So you can end up with $ spent on AdWords keyowrd, and $ you earned from visitors clicking that link (or ROI) displayed on your statistics page which makes it a childs play to make marketing decisions about profitability of some campaigns.
(sorry about bad english but I'm in a hurry and cannot even recheck it) |
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