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How to track PDF visits/clicks in Google Analytics?

by Pintu
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Hi Friends,

I have a small question, does anybody know how to track pdf page of my site in Google Analytics? e.g traffic, clicks etc. Actually we are sending mailer and it send on 70000 people so how could I track that how many people clicked and opened that pdf by email? Please inform me id anybody know about this.

Many Thanks
Himanshu
#analytics #google #pdf #track #visits or clicks
  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    You go to Google analytics, or whatever analytics you have on your site, and look at what pages your visitors visited. It's that simple.

    If you have no links to it from anywhere except the email messages, any visitors would have come from there.

    You should also track your email messages....

    If you want to know that email recipient #1 visited, you'd have to make a url specific to that recipient... In other words, have the pdf loaded many times with different urls, url1 for recipient 1, url2 for recipient 2, etc.

    But, in Google analytics, under behavior, you get to see where people got on your site, what page they visited next...

    Originally Posted by Pintu View Post

    Hi Friends,

    I have a small question, does anybody know how to track pdf page of my site in Google Analytics? e.g traffic, clicks etc. Actually we are sending mailer and it send on 70000 people so how could I track that how many people clicked and opened that pdf by email? Please inform me id anybody know about this.

    Many Thanks
    Himanshu
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  • Profile picture of the author fpforum
    I'm pretty sure these would still show up under the "Referrals" portion of Acquisition if the PDF is located online. If the PDF is downloaded then I guess it might show up as a Direct hit instead..
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Hey a real question!

      This is all the info you need. You basically decide to track iit as an even or click.

      It will take some reading and learning, but is a dang valuable way of tracking.

      https://support.google.com/analytics...hl=en#Download

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Pintu
    Thank you so much friends for such a helpful tips.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I prefer tracking hashtag URLs because I can easily add unique URL tracking IDs for multiple click events on the same page, including offline PDF files.

    If you had an offline PDF file that had 10 call-to-actions (CTA) they could all point to a single online sales page/URL but each have unique hashtag IDs for tracking which CTA link has the best CTR.

    Example, say I want to track link clicks for the most popular color of a single car make/model (red, white or blue) but all the links point to the same online sales page.
    • hxxp://cars.com/ford/2015-mustang#red
    • hxxp://cars.com/ford/2015-mustang#white
    • hxxp://cars.com/ford/2015-mustang#blue


    Here's a Google Analytic hashtag tracking tutorial I made a while back:
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    I think the easiest way to do it is with utm codes, Analytics can track them and here is a utm builder from google:

    https://support.google.com/analytics...he_url_builder
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