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By: C. August

C. August — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:15:28 +0000

Thanks for this, but have you tried it with Google’s new tracking script? They are moving away from the Urchin.js, and it’s not immediately clear which function to call in the OnClick event ga.js script.

I think it might be pageTracker._trackPageview(); because at least I don’t see any javascript errors. But I have yet to see anything come through in the reports.

By: Zé Cacetudo | The Daily Hype

Zé Cacetudo | The Daily Hype — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:15:53 +0000

An excellent article. I found it to be well-written and relatively easy to follow. I’ve followed your technique and so far it appears to be working fine (gotta wait a day or two to see if my own test clicks on the RSS links show up in Google Analytics though).

One question, however: I’m also using FeedBurner’s FeedFlare tool to create e-mail/Facebook/Digg/etc. links below each of my posts. The code for that appears to call a script that’s hosted on FeedBurner’s site, which (as far as I can tell) makes it impossible for me to add the onClick argument to the link.

I looked through the relevant groups to see if there’s something already out there on this, but found nothing. If you have any thoughts or ideas, I’d appreciate hearing them. Cheers.

By: Evan Donovan

Evan Donovan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:11:09 +0000

Would it possible to use this technique to track subscriptions to RSS feeds through the feed included in the via the tag?

By: SEO Tracker

SEO Tracker — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:44:33 +0000

WOW, thanks for the tip! I have been using analytics for a while now and never really understood how this all worked. Your example is pretty straight forward and I am now tracking more efficiently.

By: Aimz

Aimz — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:23:13 +0000

Thanks hamlet for posting this info. I am going to try a few different ideas and this might be one of them I’ll try.
Good idea

By: bkennedy

bkennedy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:57:36 +0000

isn’t it true that once the page loads all the javascript will be loaded, and so it doesn’t matter if the javascript comes in the header since most people wait for the page to load entirely before they click on anything?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:40:46 +0000

Hamlet, excellent explanation. Just what I was looking for, only I did not fully comprehend G.A.’s description in their online help. Thanks!

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:38:53 +0000

Brandie – Thanks for your comment. You do need to complete that part in order to see the stats on Google Analytics.

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:37:58 +0000

Tina – Sorry I missed your comment. You don’t need to worry about those. As you said yourself, those are the robots that extract the content of your site to feed the search engine services.

By: Brandie Kajino

Brandie Kajino — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:30:26 +0000

Ok, not feeling very smart… do I need to use the “tracking/feeds” part?

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:25:21 +0000

Hey… Thanks a lot
I wonder if I have just put everything right…
URL:
http://www.flowerofparadise.blogspot.com

I have one more uncertainty. In my feed burner Live hits section; there are these user agents’ lists I can find something new there. Google feed fetcher, I guess it’s something which crawls over the content in my blog…Could you please explain what that is!!! And is that something harmful???? Also there is something called Technorati search Bot and Feed burner Feed Insurance. Are these spiders???Or subscribers visit???Or something else!!! I found this recently…Kindly explain this it would help me a lot. I’m lacking in knowledge..

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:15:50 +0000

Tina – Thanks for your comment. You need to place the Google Analytics Javascript first. Follow their instructions for this. Next, you place the onClick code in the link to your feed.

If possible, please provide the URL and I will check it out and tell you what you need to fix.

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:57:39 +0000

Hi…

Looks like a great idea….I wanna track my subscribers. I really didn’t get a picture of how and where to place the Javascript,Kinda confused about how to do it.I tried something and it’s not working…Could you please help me out with that???

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By: Adam Taylor

Adam Taylor — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:31:58 +0000

Small point, it’s generally better to put javascript at the bottom of the page, before the closing tag, that way the user gets the page content without the (minor admittedly) delay of a javascript include.

It shouldn’t matter where in your page the google analytics tag is in relation to the link tracking tag.

Cool article though, I love Google Analytics

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By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:43:00 +0000

Drew – Welcome to my blog. I’m glad you liked the tip

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:40:30 +0000

Yes. That is how most people use the trick