Outbound link tracking

[Dominic Belfiori]

Hey guys, i've been trying to figure out how to get the outbound link tracking to work via Google Analytics. Sadly, I'm failing at getting the coding to work. Has anyone had experience with using Google Analytics for this? What do you use to track outbound links?

Thanks!

 

[Billfred]

We add this to the links we want to track as another attribute of the <a> tag:

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/whateversite.com');"

In Google Analytics, it shows up as its own URL as though it was on our site. The Outgoing folder isn't mandatory, but it does make searching for the various pages in the data a little easier.

Hope this helps!

 

[ryanlucia]

Set up a goal. Make the goal the URL to leave your site to your outbound link. Done!

 

[Dominic Belfiori]

Awesome, thanks for the suggestions you guys. I actually did both this last Friday, and the results are showing as "0 Conversions". Perhaps I entered it in in-correctly. I'll re-add the info, hopefully it works this time