Tracking Visitor Flow

[TravG]

One think I have been trying to do is track and watch how visitors flow through my website. The objective was to see which pages I was losing visitors on and which pages seemed to convert.

When looking at this report in Google Analytics I have realized it is pretty much useless because the way I have my site set up, or so I think. The drop rates for my individual casino review pages is high, as it should be hopefully because they are leaving my website to go to the casino (or so I think) but how do I know that?

I have pages set up for the outgoing links and then redirect those pages on my htaccess. So for example if you click to go to casino a from the review page I have a "/go/casino-a/" page set up which my htaccess file then redirects to the casino using my affiliate code. But how do I know they clicked that and not just closed the page or did a new search?

My thinking was I could look to see how many visitors ended up going to the page "/go/casino-a/" and that would tell me how many visitors I sent to casino a. But since I have that redirect set up I cant track that.

Is there a way to see how many redirects you did for particular pages? How do you guys track the traffic you send to casinos? I dont want to have direct links to all the casinos I dont think just to track this??

Thanks for any help

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

Tracking referral traffic beyond your portal, or any portal, has always been an issue.

I don't do Affiliate work anymore but one way I did it before was to set up doorway pages for each casino and set those up as your goal pages in Analytics

[slotshustler]

I had a similar setup, I used to have an index page, with a redirect in the code, for every /go/casino-name/ this way I tracked them.

[Lucky Bob]

I was planning on doing the same soon. Seems there are a few ways to go about it.
Doing a bit of research for it I found these articles that might help:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/h...alytics/42452/

http://www.koozai.com/blog/analytics...nalytics-7721/

http://blogs.imediaconnection.com/bl...-on-your-site/

[slotshustler]

Lucky Bob, that is amazing recommendation. Now I have to make it work inside of a ton of other script.

[TravG]

I had a similar setup, I used to have an index page, with a redirect in the code, for every /go/casino-name/ this way I tracked them.

Yes that is how I am doing it but I cannot see how many times that page has been accessed, or I am missing it somehow. I do like the idea Gary has above as setting those pages as goal pages in analytics I just have to see how to do that. Not really good with Analytics yet.

[bonusdevil]

I have 3-4 links for each bookmaker, and they're grouped. (Bet365, William Hill etc) Set the goal at £1 each to see how many have clicked through at a glance. Works well, and shows the accuracy of some Affiliates.

[bonusdevil]

Damn, just seen the date of this. Apologies.

[louie.wilson]

Might be way too late, but i recently tried the following, as i wanted to measure pretty much the same thin.

You can create a GOAL in GA. This goal can be an action or something personalized.
One of this can be a destination page. To be honest, i'm having a hard time making sure it works on my site, as it either says i have 100% success or 0%

But well, you can chose the destination URL, and this way, by page, know how many people reaching that particular one, left your site for the casino one.