Tracking Sessions for 301 Re-Direct in Google Analytics
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Trying to track clicks for individual slides on a homepage slider. I cannot enter UTM codes on the slide links, just choose from a dropdown containing pages on my site (WordPress).
So, I set-up 301 re-directs for all the slides.
/slide1-redirect
/slide-2-redirectetc..
Will these redirect pages show up in GA? I cannot see them. I'm trying to create a Dashboard for Homepage slider clicks.
John
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You need to do this tracking of the clicks within your own site (like from the sliders) by configuring GA's Event Tracking, J. That's specifically what Event Tracking is for- to track internal site behaviors. And you NEVER track links within your own site using UTM parameters - you'll ruin your data that way.
(And no, the redirects won't register in GA, since there's no firing of the tracking script by the intermediary URL.)
Hope that helps?
Paul
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