Weird Google Analytics tracking question
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I have a client that has a market place site, where people list goods and sell them, think something like Etsy. Instead of developing a system to show the users page views and things like that, does it sound reasonable to let them enter a Google Analytics property on the pages they list on, then let them monitor through GA? Does anyone see any fatal flaws in this thinking?
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Thanks to both of you, that was what I was thinking, I just haven't really heard anyone implementing it like that before.
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No, we do it with one of our services and it's working flawless. I've also worked with a custom built solution that registered pageviews and clicks itself. But it's a pain the ass as you have to make sure that bots or other irrelevant 'visitors' are not registered.
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From a technical prospective that's fine, you can find more information on the implementation of this scenario here Advanced Configuration - Web Tracking and here Multiple tracking codes on web pages
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