Conversion tracking
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Is there a way in GA to setup tracking of the clicking internal URL that 301's to an affiliate ID?
Peter
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Hey Peter,
Are you talking about setting up a goal in GA or simply tracking which links have been clicked? If it's the later then you can setup some javascript so when the link is clicked then you call
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', trackWhat, clickLocation, clickTitle]);
Which will create an event in GA which you can track, alternatively if you are looking for a GA goal you could try adding a virtual pageview to the link activated by javascript again:
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/example.php']);
Just make sure you have that page set up as a goal in your GA setup.
Hope that helps!
Stuart
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