Question on Google Analytic setup

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Hey guys,

I have a question regarding some Google Analytics tracking here. My company is looking to start a campaign where we need to track some how many visitors we are getting through an external link (a special "vanity" URL). Here is the set-up being used:

1. Say, our site is www.mysite.com

2. We have created some vanity URLs to be placed on a few other online publications. For example, we have a URL called www.mysite.com/publication1-coming-soon to be placed on publication1.com and www.mysite.com/publication2-coming-soon to be place on www.publication2.com. There are about 20 such URLs which will be placed on 20 different sites.

3. All such URLs such as www.mysite.com/publication1-coming-soon and www.mysite.com/publication2-coming-soon will redirect to the main www.mysite.com.

4. Now, let's say someone arrives on my site through one of these links, and then clicks to go on to some other page on my site.

5. At the end of it all, I need to generate reports on .

6. What I am worried about/guessing is that once the person lands on the main site, and clicks to go on to some other page on the main site, all his reference to which ever site he came from goes away (I may be wrong here).

So, my question is- what's the best way to go about setting this kind of a tracking?

Will really appreciate your help to this end. If someone can point out how to set this up in code, it would be awesome.

Thanks...
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  • Hi Brrainstormerr,

    Have you tried Google Analytics Campaigns?
    Campaigns - Analytics Help

    You can use the Custom Campaign features to build in tracking for just about anything you want.
    Custom campaigns - Analytics Help
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    • Thanks for your reply DBurk... I did take a look at those some time back. The thing is, when you setup a custom campaign you need to add custom tags to these codes. The client on the other hand, is very particular about the vanity urls. So on any of those other publications sites, I need to place the link exactly as, for example, www.mysite.com/publication1-coming-soon.

      I may be wrong in interpreting the concept of URL tagging, the problem is right now I cant test it since the campaigns are not launched yet. But I have to be ready with a sure-shot strategy because I will get very little time to implement the same. I hope I have explained what I require clearly enough. It might be a pretty simple thing to setup, I just need to be sure I have got it right.

      Thanks again...
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  • Thanks, Sipboy, for your help. I can figure out the rest of the stuff myself. Oh, and I implemented the tracking successfully tonight. Also, I can confirm that the htaccess url rewrite method works fine. I feel it's a tad cleaner and easier to manage than creating manual folders, specially when you have a lot of URLs to deal with.
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    Question on Google Analytic setup

    Hey guys, I have a question regarding some Google Analytics tracking here. My company is looking to start a campaign where we need to track some how many visitors we are getting through an external link (a special "vanity" URL). Here is the set-up being used: