Tracking Sessions for 301 Re-Direct in Google Analytics

[jbernier]

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-redirect

etc..

Will these redirect pages show up in GA? I cannot see them. I'm trying to create a Dashboard for Homepage slider clicks.

John

[ThompsonPaul]

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