Tracking Affiliate Advertising Clicks in Google Analytics
KB ID 0000632 Problem Google Analytics is great at telling you what’s coming into your site, but it’s not designed to tell you what’s going out. For the most part that’s OK, but what if you have affiliate adverts, and you want to track if your visitors are clicking on them, or you want to find out which ones are NOT getting clicked on so you can drop them. Solution 1. First you need to delay the result of the...
Google Analytics – Redundant Hostnames
(Redirecting non www URL’s to www URL’s) KB ID 0001016 Problem I noticed this a while back, apparently Google Analytics started flagging this for many users on October 14th 2014. But I’ve only just got round to sorting it out. If you are seeing this error its because your site is ‘addressable’ in more than one way, in my case you could get to me via http://petenetlive and http://www.petenetlive.com. I...