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Tracking Article Referrals in Analytics

by Rammin
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I've got about 40 ezine articles floating around the net that I wrote a little while ago which I thought were not doing well, when lo and behold, they started to make some sales. The problem is, I have no idea which articles are producing the sales. Being the statistical freak that I am, I wanna know which ones are doing well, and replicate that style of writing across the whole lot. So my question is 2 fold:

Is it possible to see what exact ezine articles URL a referral came from in Google Analytics? I can only see the generic ezinearticles.com in the source dimension, maybe I'm not slicing the data quite right?

If the above isn't possible, and I have to use the URL builder (Google it if you don't know what it is, I can't post links to it) to edit and tag each article with unique info that will show up in Analytics, will me editing that article affect it's position in the SERPS, and will tagging my URL with that extra info affect the PR flow back to my site?

Pretty finicky and technicial questions I know, but if someone knows the answer that'd be great.
#analytics #article #referrals #tracking
  • Profile picture of the author crystyignat
    Hi there,

    A simple way to do that is to add at the end of each url a refid number. For example, if you have an article about cat lovers point the article to yourwebsite using mysite.com/refid=cat-lover-article then on another article about dog lovers, point the article to your website using mysite.com/refid-dog-lover-article
    Then segment your visitors in Analytics by the entry page. If you don't know how, read more about segmentation in Analytics, there are planty of resources out there.

    Hope this helps you :-)

    Cristian
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