My "Humble" Christmas Gift To Warrior Forum
Hello Warriors!
I hope you are enjoying the holiday season.
I see lots of questions about how to track traffic sources. So I thought I would mention something that I wish I did years earlier:
Step #1: You already have Google Analytics on every page of your site don't you? If not, stop what you're doing and do that ASAP. google.com/analytics.
Now for the good stuff, did you know that you can add a tracking ID to ANY link you put out there in cyberspace? It's true. If you are tracking your Twitter campaign, simple use a link like: mysite.com/?r=twitter or if you are tracking a Facebook campaign, use a link like: mysite.com/?r=facebook.
The question mark followed by text after the trailing backslash is taken literally by the browser, but mysite.com only serves the page it was told to serve. Make sense?
I'm not sure if tracking IDs need to handled in a special manner if you are dealing with PHP. I haven't tested it.
Tracking IDs are passed to your site automatically and picked up by Google Analytics. It's all automatic!
CAUTION: I don't pretend to know how this might affect your SEO efforts, so your mileage may vary.
Another tip, you can also insert your hyperlink with tracking ID in all of your offline material, like ebooks and software. For example, in my software, I have a Menu Bar option that reads "Order Now!" Here is the Visual Basic code I use to have the User's browser go to my order page:
This method works all the way back to Windows 95 as far as I know:
Private Sub mnuOrder_Click()
Dim Search
Dim BrowserString As String
Dim LaunchBrowser As String
BrowserString = "rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "
LaunchBrowser = BrowserString + "http://mysite.com/order/?r=Version"
Search = Shell(LaunchBrowser, 0)
End Sub
There are many ways to drive traffic AND track it; both online and offline.
Happy holidays!
Brandon
I hope you are enjoying the holiday season.
I see lots of questions about how to track traffic sources. So I thought I would mention something that I wish I did years earlier:
Step #1: You already have Google Analytics on every page of your site don't you? If not, stop what you're doing and do that ASAP. google.com/analytics.
Now for the good stuff, did you know that you can add a tracking ID to ANY link you put out there in cyberspace? It's true. If you are tracking your Twitter campaign, simple use a link like: mysite.com/?r=twitter or if you are tracking a Facebook campaign, use a link like: mysite.com/?r=facebook.
The question mark followed by text after the trailing backslash is taken literally by the browser, but mysite.com only serves the page it was told to serve. Make sense?
I'm not sure if tracking IDs need to handled in a special manner if you are dealing with PHP. I haven't tested it.
Tracking IDs are passed to your site automatically and picked up by Google Analytics. It's all automatic!
CAUTION: I don't pretend to know how this might affect your SEO efforts, so your mileage may vary.
Another tip, you can also insert your hyperlink with tracking ID in all of your offline material, like ebooks and software. For example, in my software, I have a Menu Bar option that reads "Order Now!" Here is the Visual Basic code I use to have the User's browser go to my order page:
This method works all the way back to Windows 95 as far as I know:
Private Sub mnuOrder_Click()
Dim Search
Dim BrowserString As String
Dim LaunchBrowser As String
BrowserString = "rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "
LaunchBrowser = BrowserString + "http://mysite.com/order/?r=Version"
Search = Shell(LaunchBrowser, 0)
End Sub
There are many ways to drive traffic AND track it; both online and offline.
Happy holidays!
Brandon
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