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Any way to track clicks on your links (from every mouse button)?

by GarfieldLordofCats
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Hi

So i have a business model where I basically have a few websites with high traffic and in those websites I place external links to my clients websites. My problem these last few years has been that I cannot give these clients a detailed report of how many times visitors have clicked on my sites a link to their sites.

This info doesnt show in analytics anymore, like it used to be, because my websites are in WP, and WP in these last versions has per default a no referrer attribute unless you open a link in the same window which creates all kinds of security problems.

So I've been trying to navigate around these limitations with the google tag manager, but the tag manager doesnt report the mouse clicks coming from the wheel button or middle button (the one you use to open links in new windows).

I'm willing to pay for this service as long as it works with every click a visitor makes, no matter with which mouse button, I need detailed reports of this, my whole business depends on this data.

thanks for any help
#button #clicks #links #mouse #track
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    https://wplift.com/track-outbound-links-wordpress
    https://wplift.com/track-outbound-links-wordpress monsterinsitghs plugin has a way.
    https://pojo.me/plugins/linker/
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  • Profile picture of the author IGotMine
    I use CAOS | Host Google Analytics Locally

    Fully compatible with Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WP by MonsterInsights, WooCommerce Google Analytics Integration, Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WP by Analytify and Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by ExactMetrics,
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    You can use HotJar.

    It's a cool tool to see what your visitors are doing, where are they clicking, etc.

    www.hotjar.com
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  • Profile picture of the author peter stark
    short URL via bit.ly and track all the clicks by just adding # at the end of your short URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author webbie
    A hosted solution I've used for years is: https://Yourls.org

    It is very easy to use and has a decent set of analytics but you'll have to check if it's robust enough for what you want to do. I use it for websites, social media, emails, etc...

    And it's free... ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrii Ozemko
    Why don't you use Google Analytics? You can add a mouse click event handler and save the info. For example.
    <a href="https://website.com/some-page" onclick="ga('send', 'event', 'Main Page', 'Navigate to Different Website');">Navigate</a>
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  • Profile picture of the author sushmitha gowda
    Google Analytics will give you all the details then why you need another tool.
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    • Profile picture of the author GarfieldLordofCats
      Originally Posted by Andrii Ozemko View Post

      Why don't you use Google Analytics? You can add a mouse click event handler and save the info. For example.
      <a href="https://website.com/some-page" onclick="ga('send', 'event', 'Main Page', 'Navigate to Different Website');">Navigate</a>
      thanks, noted, but that would require to do it manually for every link

      Originally Posted by sushmitha gowda View Post

      Google Analytics will give you all the details then why you need another tool.
      Because it won't, not by default..Read the other replies.

      thanks to the advice of some of you guys I'm using monsterinsights and so far so good
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  • Profile picture of the author jonathanstier1soloads
    Here are a couple free click tracking shorteners:

    1) bit.ly (very reliable and has been around literally for ever.
    2) shorturl.is (this one slows my pc though so not sure)

    There are also plenty of paid ones like clickmagick. Simply do a search on google and there are hundreds of paid click tracking services.
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  • Profile picture of the author yesacpow
    I think what you are looking for is a tool like crazyegg that records your visitors activities on your website including mouse clicks.


    The tool also has the ability to tell you where your traffic is coming from so that you can know which of your visitors are taking the desired actions on your landing pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author bestmarketingforever
    I think google analytis it's enough for your need, you have very good features to use for free!
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  • Profile picture of the author ReadySteadyGo
    I have used prettylinks for this previously. Worked OK and it is free for what you need.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cristy94
    You could use userTrack and add click-tags for each link <a href="yourlink" data-UST_click_tag="click_link_publisher_1"/> and then you can easily see the count/graph of all users who have the "click_link_publisher_1" tag.
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