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I want a click to an affiliate link to be some sort of a goal, or event, in Google Analytics so I can track them and see which page converts and which doesn't.
I looked at some tutorials online but couldn't find an answer. Maybe someone here knows how to set this up?
Here is my Google Tag Manager Setup for this
Create a container, publish it
Enable the Built-In Variables you need .. I have the following enabled on mine
Click Classes
Click Element
Click ID
Click Target
Click Text
Click URL
Event
Page Hostname
Page Path
Page URL
Referrer
create a Trigger
"Merchant Link Click Trigger"
Trigger type> Click - All Elements
Trigger fires on Some Clicks - in my case "Click URL contains /out/"
Create a TAG
"Click To Merchant Tag"
Type> Universal Analytics
Track Type> Event
Category > click-to-merchant
action> {{Click URL}}
label > {{Click URL}}
value > {{Page URL}}
Non Interaction hit> FALSE
checked - enable overriding settings in this tag
Add UA ID
advanced settings - fire once per event
Now assign your trigger to your tag..
publish your workspace, and after you get clicks on your /out/ links, you should see events report in analytics under behaviour events..
eg yoursite.com/out/somemerchant - number of clicks
have a look in google analytics realtime to debug, or one of the browser extensions that are available like tag assistant
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...okphdefk?hl=en
Now to set up those events as Goals,
go to goals in analytics admin, create a new goal,
setup a "place an order" type goal
name> Click To Merchant
type> event
goal details>
category equals to click-to-merchant
other 3 fields leave empty
click save.
enjoy
Thanks man, didn't manage to get it to work yet, must have missed some step. :anger:
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Originally Posted by DanHorvat
Hey dan
sheeeit, i must have omitted some little essential detail.
have a look at this guide, I recall using an article like this to get started with the event tracking part .. after that setting the event category as a goal is easy.
https://www.optimizesmart.com/event-...omplete-guide/
let me know if this is of any help / where you are getting stuck.
Niall
My events are firing (I checked with the Preview tool) but are not being tracked by Google Analytics. Here are the values of the event:
Type: Google Analytics: Universal Analytics
Firing Status: Succeeded
Non-Interaction Hit: false
Enable overriding settings in this tag: false
Value: (shows the URL of the outgoing link accurately)
Category: 'Clickses'
Track Type: 'TRACK_EVENT'
Google Analytics Settings:
{
doubleClick: false,
setTrackerName: false,
useDebugVersion: false,
useHashAutoLink: false,
decorateFormsAutoLink: false,
enableLinkId: false,
enableEcommerce: false,
trackingId: (shows my UA-xxxxxxxxx-x accurately)
fieldsToSet: [{fieldName: 'cookieDomain', value: 'auto'}]
}
Action: 'Actionses'
Label: (shows URL of the page where the link was clicked)
I tried to set this up with another website, same thing. Event fires but isn't tracked in GA. I don't have any view filters in GA, all settings are default.
Any ideas?
I will have a look at my settings and let you know if anything jumps out!
edit: pasted some stuff here but formatting is all borked. Happy to skype with you sir and share my screen, or ping you some screenshots of every screen of my setup if you want to dm me your email address!
i wish we could paste an image here in this forum software without having to upload it somewhere else!
I had to wait a week to see how it behaves. It's tracking events, though I don't see nearly as many clicks as in affiliate back ends and in my Wordpress plugin that tracks outbound clicks.
It's either not tracking every click or the aff stats are wrong by an order of magnitude (1 in 10 is an actual click).
But this level of data is fantastic. Next I'll assign goal values to these events, based on the click to NDA rate and the average lifetime player value.
Images can be pasted here, although it is helpful if they are not huge in weight or bigger then the average screen.
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Glad to see you got it working Dan, and thank you so much ddm for taking the extra time and effort to explain the setup in detail as it may well be helping many other members to follow the steps you laid out.
Rick
Universal4
yay - glad you got the data flowing Dan.
Good question Dan. I used it as the inspiration for this week's newsletter poll:
Do you use Google Analytics event tracking?
Michael