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Tracking clicks for masked url's

by dave.
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Hi guys,

I'm using Google analytics and have a little question about tracking clicks. I am an affiliate and I want to track, how many people are clicking on my affiliate links (and for which keywords those people have found my website). My links are masked, so visitors see www.maysite.com/affiliatelink.html instead of www.partnerwebsite/affiliates...

I've used a software so far to hide my affiliate links, but unfortunately I'm unable to insert the analytics code into the page the software creates for me. This means that I can set up /affiliatelink.html as a goal within analytics, but Google is not able to track clicks for me.

Do you have any solution for this? I'm not very familiar with php, but I guess you can somehow easily create a masked redirect that contains the tracking code.

Thanks for your help!

Cheers
Dave.
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  • Profile picture of the author andreasnrb
    I use this method
    How do I manually track clicks on outbound links? - Analytics Help
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  • Profile picture of the author murtuza
    Here's what I do...

    I have a superb script called adtrackz gold. It will help you to setup click tracking, ROI and a bunch of things and also will allow you to mask your affiliate links like the way you are doing right now very easily. So with this
    you will have your links tracked.

    Now to find out the keywords that people use to find your site all I do is move on to cpanel hosting and check out AWStats tracking out there. There you will get bunch of keywords people are using to find your pages and site for various keywords and with this you can determine where your pages are ranked.

    If you are trying to track specific pages for certain keywords all you can do is take the SEO elite software. Just paste in your keywords, give it your domain name and it will retrieve all the pages that are ranking for that keyword in a very neat report within few minutes.

    Hope this helps...

    Murtuza
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