How do I track a PDF?

[Francisco_Meza]

I have this eBook in PDF and I don't know how to track it:

http://www.shipoverseas.com/PDFs/how-to-buy-a-car-in-usa-and-ship-it-overseas.pdf

I ultimately want to do like SeoMoz in their Ranking Reports: Export to PDF

Anybody have a quick idea on how to do this?

[ninjamarketer]

What analytics tool are you using?

In Google Analytics you can use onclick function with pagetrackview to track all the link clicks (internal and external)

onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/yourfile.pdf')

You can add this line to the GA code and track one URL as well i.e onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/URL.html');

Omniture onclick syntax is as follows using s.prop (property / traffic variables)

<li onclick="geturl('http: www.yourwebsite.com'');onclick="s=s_gi('nameofyouromniturereportsuite');s.prop1='Name" of="" hte="" file="" for="" reporting';s.tl(this,'o','name="" the="" reporting')"="">Anchor Text of the file</li onclick="geturl('http:>

Coremetrics has event conversion metrics that can be used to track downloads and link clicks

cmCreateConversionEventTag ("Event ID","Action Type","Event Category ID","Points");

Event id = Name of the file

Action type = 1 for event initiation and 2 for event completion

Event category id = Name of the group / page

Points = lead scoring points

[Francisco_Meza]

Downloads. Besides, is it possible to tack just one URL? This URL is not in my CMS. I created a file in FTP called PDFs on the root folder.

[malachiii]

What type of tracking.  Views after downloads, or just downloads / views on the website?