Google Analytics/Clickbank Question

by Yourup
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Does anybody know what would happen if I put the Google Analytics tracking code in a clickbank hoplink?
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  • Profile picture of the author ClickMonkey
    Originally Posted by Yourup View Post

    Does anybody know what would happen if I put the Google Analytics
    tracking code in a clickbank hoplink?
    Hello! :-) If you mean to literally include the JavaScript code snippet that
    you get from Google Analytics and to try and append it at the end of the
    basic affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net hoplink, you will get an error
    message saying that the page cannot load. Now if you mean to include the
    same JavaScript code as a TID variable in the hoplink, that will also result
    in an error. If you mean to just grab the Google Analytics code snippet that
    reflects your account number with Google Analytics, and to include that as
    a TID variable, it will potentially work. But not for Google Analytics. It would
    only work in the sense that if a sale is made, you will have a TID variable
    that reflects your Google Anayltics account number (or whatever portion of
    the Google Analytics code you can squeeze into the TID variable).
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    • Profile picture of the author Yourup
      Thanks
      I'm setting up a new site in PHP and the designer had the burning question.
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      • Profile picture of the author ClickMonkey
        Originally Posted by Yourup View Post

        I'm setting up a new site in PHP and the designer had the
        burning question.
        Hello! :-) This is a little bit of a guess, but it could be the designer
        wants to set things up so that you can see how many people have
        clicked on an affiliate link located on the website.

        One way to possibly do this would be to setup individual affiliate
        links that are embedded inside a PHP page. For example, let's say
        you were promoting a software product sold on ClickBank called
        "Super Anti Virus 2009" (this is just for example purposes). Now if
        you want to track how many people click on your affiliate link for
        that product, you can setup a special PHP on your website called
        "superantiviruslink.php" and inside that file have something like:

        Code:
        <?php
        
        print("google analytics code snippet goes here");
        
        header("location: http://affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net");
        
        ?>
        This way you can still capture Google Analytics data but also still
        send the visitor to the ClickBank "pitch" page. Your designer can
        maybe use what I just provided as a basic template and then go
        about creating your affiliate links that way. I hope this helps!
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        • Profile picture of the author xiaophil
          You sure can use Google Analytics to track clicks on affiliate links.

          You can group your links into different categories with different names and they show up right inside your analytics as Events.

          I covered this and a lot more in this thread:

          http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...detection.html
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  • Profile picture of the author dawnpeterson
    Hi,

    I would take a look at www.affiliatelinkmagic.com/pro. I bought that software and it has the ability to have your analytics in the page, plus a pop up and an exit pop up! Very nice.

    Dawn.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yourup
    Thanks guys, I'll pass these suggestions on to the designer to see what he can do.
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  • Profile picture of the author francesro
    Didn't know you could do this. Thanks for the post. I'll be looking into this also.
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