Track Forum Signature Squeeze Pages?

11 years ago

1. Install Google Analytics on your site.

2. Add a value at the end of your links such as http://www.google.com/?id=wfsig

3. Look through your Google Analytics at the pages people have been viewing on your site and any that arrived on the url above came from your Warrior Forum sig. Do the same for any other link you want to track.

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DJ Whrr

11 years ago

OK so you're saying add special ids at the end of each signature's url? Then Google Analytics will be able to tell what signature the squeeze page was accessed from? How would I track that using Google Analytics though?

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WillR

11 years ago

Originally Posted by DJ Whrr

OK so you're saying add special ids at the end of each signature's url? Then Google Analytics will be able to tell what signature the squeeze page was accessed from? How would I track that using Google Analytics though?

As I said above. Go to Google Analytics, look at the pages that have been accessed on your site and wil show you each of those links and how many times they have been accessed.

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DJ Whrr

11 years ago

Sorry man, doesn't make sense. Thanks for trying though!!!

Can someone else assist me? Thanks!

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JSProjects 11 years ago

Originally Posted by DJ Whrr

Sorry man, doesn't make sense. Thanks for trying though!!!

Can someone else assist me? Thanks!

Will told you one of the easiest ways to do it.

You could also set up a specific landing page that you point just your sig links to.
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WillR

11 years ago

Originally Posted by DJ Whrr

Sorry man, doesn't make sense. Thanks for trying though!!!

Can someone else assist me? Thanks!

It's actually VERY simple.

If you have Google Analytics setup on your website and you then go and look at your Google Anaytics, specifically the section 'Content > Site Content > All Pages' it will show you a list every page on your website that has been accessed and all the stats about those pages -- how many people accessed that page, how long they stayed on the site, etc.

It looks like this:

See on the right hand side it has a list of pages? See the second one there that says '?id=sig'. By adding that to the end of my url I know that anyone who accessed that site with that url came from my signature. I could create another id for a different banner, any traffic source you want to track. Then when I look at my analytics I can see exactly how many people accessed my site and what url they used to access.

You could set up and link to a different landing page for each traffic source and they would show in this pages section so you would know where people came from. But who wants to do that? That's why we simply use a php value at the end of the url such as ?id=whatever as it means you can send all traffic sources to the exact same url but that additional information will allow you to see where those people came from.

Make sense now?

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DJ Whrr 11 years ago

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. OK, that makes so much more sense now (I'm a visual learner, so that picture REALLY helped!).

OK, so, for example, say I have http://www.mywebsite.com/landingpage/?id=forumsig for the URL link in one of my signatures. So, this will automatically track that URL (the one that ends in ?id=forumsig) on Google Analytics? Just want to ensure that I got it.

However, I am confused... so I don't need to add that particular URL (the one that ends in ?id=forumsig) to Google Analytics though? GA will automatically start picking up that URL?

Thanks so much for the help. I really appreciate it.

DJ Whrr
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DJ Whrr

11 years ago

For those of you who are reading this and want a summary, here it is:

URLs:
The BEST way to go about tracking your links is using Google's URL Builder, and then shortening that URL with the Google URL Shortener.

This will keep your links clean and simple.

Tracking (Google Analytics):
Check out WillR@'s post that I reposted at the bottom of this post. It has a great explanation on how to track your URLs using Google Analytic's Goals feature.

I am a little unsure about Prosper 202, but I think that Google Analytics will do just fine. Anyone have input on Propser 202? Please post for me/other readers if so!

Thanks all for the contribution!

DJ Whrr

Originally Posted by WillR

It's actually VERY simple.

If you have Google Analytics setup on your website and you then go and look at your Google Anaytics, specifically the section 'Content > Site Content > All Pages' it will show you a list every page on your website that has been accessed and all the stats about those pages -- how many people accessed that page, how long they stayed on the site, etc.

It looks like this:

See on the right hand side it has a list of pages? See the second one there that says '?id=sig'. By adding that to the end of my url I know that anyone who accessed that site with that url came from my signature. I could create another id for a different banner, any traffic source you want to track. Then when I look at my analytics I can see exactly how many people accessed my site and what url they used to access.

You could set up and link to a different landing page for each traffic source and they would show in this pages section so you would know where people came from. But who wants to do that? That's why we simply use a php value at the end of the url such as ?id=whatever as it means you can send all traffic sources to the exact same url but that additional information will allow you to see where those people came from.

Make sense now?

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WillR

11 years ago

The '?id=' part of the url is just a value you are adding on to the end of the url -- it's not a separate page in the real sense of the word. So as long as you have GA installed and tracking on your page mywebsite.com/landingpage, it will pick up any values you put at the end of that url and they will show as different pages in GA.

So you might have:

mywebsite.com/landingpage/?id=banner1
mywebsite.com/landingpage/?id=banner2
mywebsite.com/landingpage/?id=banner3

Also keep in mind that it doesn't HAVE to be 'id'. You could use something like:

mywebsite.com/landingpage/?r=banner1
mywebsite.com/landingpage/?r=banner2
mywebsite.com/landingpage/?r=banner3

The main things that have to be constant are the question mark (?) and the equals sign (=) but the other values can be changed to anything you like.

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ThorBorwick

11 years ago

Originally Posted by DJ Whrr

Hey folks,

Trying to find the best way that I can track where my traffic is coming when landing on my squeeze page or my website. Any good techniques/programs out there?

I was thinking I'd have to make a new opt-in box for each landing page for EACH forum I am on in order to keep track of how much traffic comes from that particular signature link (i.e., one on djforums.com and one on Serato.com).

Thoughts?

Thanks!!!

DJ Whrr

Another easy way of doing this: clickcounts on bitly..

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FitMarketer

11 years ago

You could just use a bit.ly link.

That way you can see the number of clicks and where the clicks are from?

I hope that helps

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DJ Whrr 11 years ago

WillR, thanks for all the help. Makes total sense now.

Originally Posted by ThorBorwick

Another easy way of doing this: clickcounts on bitly..

Originally Posted by FitMarketer

You could just use a bit.ly link.

That way you can see the number of clicks and where the clicks are from?

I hope that helps

Sweet, thanks guys. So, if I used the bitly link I would just type in, for example: mywebsite.com/landingpage/?id=banner1, and it would track that specific banner?

Or would I not need to add the ?id=banner1? If not, how would I have multiple bitly links for one site?

Finally, I don't know about this option because it will be annoying to trace which bitly link goes to which signature as they all kinda look the same, you know? With the mywebsite.com/landingpage/?id=banner1 approach, I will be able to distinguish what signature I put the link in as I can "note" it by changing the id or banner1 to say the site it is on. I would not be able to do this with the bitly approach, right? Maybe I could have the bitly link distinguishable, and in that case, please tell me how to do so!
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World Marketing 11 years ago

Originally Posted by FitMarketer

You could just use a bit.ly link.

That way you can see the number of clicks and where the clicks are from?

I hope that helps

Yea this is what I use...Does the job
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- JamesLennon 11 years ago
  
  Use Google analytics and https://support.google.com/analytics...2998&ctx=topic
  
  Very easy and very powerfull
  
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John Romaine

11 years ago

Get into the habit of using Google's URL tool.

URL builder - Analytics Help

Create trackable links using that and everything shows up within GA as campaigns.

Create a spreadsheet to note all of your naming conventions before you get started. Keep them uniform, and logical. Otherwise you'll end up confusing yourself with id tags everywhere.

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FitMarketer

11 years ago

Originally Posted by John Romaine

Get into the habit of using Google's URL tool.

URL builder - Analytics Help

Create trackable links using that and everything shows up within GA as campaigns.

Create a spreadsheet to note all of your naming conventions before you get started. Keep them uniform, and logical. Otherwise you'll end up confusing yourself with id tags everywhere.

Yes Googles URL tool is also great!

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DJ Whrr

11 years ago

Originally Posted by John Romaine

Get into the habit of using Google's URL tool.

URL builder - Analytics Help

Create trackable links using that and everything shows up within GA as campaigns.

Create a spreadsheet to note all of your naming conventions before you get started. Keep them uniform, and logical. Otherwise you'll end up confusing yourself with id tags everywhere.

I like the idea of this... however, the URL is extremely now though. The ?id=keyword that WillR gave me above seems more practical.

BUT, is there any benefit to using Google's URL builder instead?

Thanks!
DJ Whrr

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paul nicholls

11 years ago

I keep things dead simple

I just clone my main squeeze page and in the web form i just name it the traffic source which i am using for that web form

i use optimize press and i just use the "copy to a new draft" feature and it clones the page

i have separate squeeze pages for every single traffic source and also a separate sales page for every single traffic source too

you need to track everything to see what your biggest profit funnels are

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John Romaine

11 years ago

Originally Posted by paul nicholls

I keep things dead simple

I just clone my main squeeze page and in the web form i just name it the traffic source which i am using for that web form

i use optimize press and i just use the "copy to a new draft" feature and it clones the page

i have separate squeeze pages for every single traffic source and also a separate sales page for every single traffic source too

you need to track everything to see what your biggest profit funnels are

This would have to be the most overly complicated and non sensical way possible.

So what are you going to do after several years of tracking multiple sources? Have 5,000 tracking pages on your site? What a headache.

Im sure that would lead to duplicate penalties eventually, too.

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paul nicholls

11 years ago

Originally Posted by John Romaine

This would have to be the most overly complicated and non sensical way possible.

So what are you going to do after several years of tracking multiple sources? Have 5,000 tracking pages on your site? What a headache.

Im sure that would lead to duplicate penalties eventually, too.

we all have different ways of doing things John

too be honest I don't care about any duplicate penalties because I am not interested in getting traffic from google anymore and what I have found so far is that it's never been a problem so far anyway

Yes there may be different ways of doing things but this works for me and it's effective

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Mabuhay Land 11 years ago

Paul, that is how I do it. Just works better for me and I can tailor my pages to any specific traffic source I am after. It is fast and easy to do.
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John Romaine

11 years ago

Of course there is.

If you are tracking from multiple sources using a variety of mediums and ad platforms, how on earth are you going to know...

1. what email made the sale?
2. what keyword made the sale?
3. which video made the sale?

...and so on

Use the Google URL tool, then use the Google URL shortener.

Problem solved.

As I said, learn how and better yet WHY you should be using the Google URL tool.

The ID method that Will showed you is limited.

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roblawrence

11 years ago

Also try the Wordpress stats that are found in the Jetpack plugin. I've found that it picks up things that Google Analytics doesn't and gives you another set of numbers to judge your site against.

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WillR

11 years ago

Originally Posted by DJ Whrr

BUT, is there any benefit to using Google's URL builder instead?

Originally Posted by John Romaine

The ID method that Will showed you is limited.

The method I showed you originally is exactly what the Google url builder does. It just appends values to the end of the url. I showed you one example with my code. But you can append as many values to the end of any url as you want.

Example:

mywebsite.com/?source=warriorforum&type=banner&&myfavoritemeal=i cecream

You get the point. This is just basic php and you can add as many or as little values as you want. All you need to do is add the & symbol between each value.

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John Romaine

11 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

The method I showed you originally is exactly what the Google url builder does. It just appends values to the end of the url. I showed you one example with my code. But you can append as many values to the end of any url as you want.

Example:

mywebsite.com/?source=warriorforum&type=banner&&myfavoritemeal=i cecream

You get the point. This is just basic php and you can add as many or as little values as you want. All you need to do is add the & symbol between each value.

Will, there is only one way to skin a cat, mate

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dndoseller

11 years ago

It would take a bit of programming. You would make your squeeze page with PHP and add a parameter for instance

mydomain.com&id=wf

Then have PHP send the id to the form as a hidden input. That is one way to track it.

Or just put Google Analytics on the page and look at referral traffic.

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DJ Whrr

11 years ago

Hey @John Romaine

When use the custom Google URL and the Google URL shortener, it doesn't show up correctly in Google Analytics. All of the page views are going straight to my landing page without the custom ID. Do you know why this is?

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John Romaine

11 years ago

I have no idea.

At least share with us what you're doing.

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DJ Whrr 11 years ago

I place my URL into Google's URL Builder, and then shorten that URL with the Google URL Shortener. After that, I placed those shortened URLs on some Google Ads that I was running.

After getting about 200 hits, I paused the campaign to see how it would work on Google Analytics. However, once the reports came through, I only saw those hits on my squeeze page URL without the specific ids for my campaign.

Its directing it to the squeeze page, but instead of recording the specific URL for that ad, it is counting it under my squeeze page without the specific ids. Does that make sense?

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John Romaine

11 years ago

Hang on, now you're talking PPC.

That's outside my area of expertise dude.

Doesn't PPC have fairly accurate tracking anyway?

Just double check the parameters are being passed (in the address bar) when you hit the destination page.

Wait, isn't there a character limit on that PPC stuff???

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DJ Whrr 11 years ago

Thanks. I read up on some stuff and realized I could connect Google Analytics and Adwords, so I did so. I'm running a cheap $2 campaign, so we'll see how that plays out. Hopefully those will be tracked correctly.
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11 years ago

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