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8 Awesome Google Analytics Hacks, Tips and Tricks

Went Hot: September 27, 2008 - 10:48 pm
Posted By: TCSM 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchlightdigital.com)
Category: Web Analytics

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from g1smd 56 days ago #

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Minor correction. Item 4 contains "backslash" not "forward slash". Backslash would be right.

from peterryan 55 days ago #

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this is a great article!

from akoma1blog 55 days ago #

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Very good article. Thank you for sharing.

from mercylivi 54 days ago #

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Thats really awesome! would like to implement them and see all soon!

from IncrediBILL 54 days ago #

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Finally, after all this time waiting, a good article with something I could use!

Nicely done.

from kichus 53 days ago #

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The 8th point will create a serious SEO issue in the form of duplicate content, I think. As it creates multiple URLs for a same destination page.

from rmurphey 53 days ago #

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Two issues with #1 -- first, much better to add the "onclick" portion using Javascript, rather than placing it inline using the onclick attribute. I wrote a post a while back about how to do just that using jQuery. Second, tracking outbound links like this will register them as pageviews, when really they aren't. Google Analytics has some docs about event tracking, which is more appropriate here, but it seems to still be in beta -- my tests haven't shown up in my GA reports yet.

from TCSM 53 days ago #

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Glad you all liked.

@kichus, I'll grant you that it can create problems. However, you can simply nofollow the link, and it's fixed.

@rmurphey i know using onclick isn't great, but it is easy, and this will cater to the largest audience. And event tracking will be cool when it's out of beta, but until then, I'd still use this method.