This is a good question, a year back or so, even I was facing similar problems with a website at work. We wanted to track not only campaign and ads on conversions, but also which keywords are leading to higher conversions. Here’s what we finally did. Changed the Destination URL in all the ads to … Read more
You basically have to tag the <a> link Google Analytics provides an easy way to track clicks on links that lead to file downloads. Because these links do not lead to a page on your site containing the tracking code, you’ll need to tag the link itself with the _trackPageview() JavaScript if you would like … Read more
I’d suggest either a plug-in or a drop-in section of code in your client’s functions.php file. The advantage of a drop-in is that you can add it once and never have to worry about activating or managing the system once it’s up-and-running. Here’s a quick explanation of how to add the Google tracking code to … Read more
When WordPress activates a plugin, it calls the activate_plugin() function. This function activates the plugin in a sandbox and redirects somewhere else on success. It’s been used by a few authors to programmatically activate plugin dependencies. There’s another function, deactivate_plugins(), that does a similar thing in reverse … it’s actually how WordPress deactivates plug-ins when … Read more
There might be a way to do this in your plugin (depends on the plugin), but assuming the Analytics code is added in the header, you could add the following just before </head> in header.php: It’s untested, but it should do the trick.
I created a simple HTML with the same JS and click handler and ran it in my local apache server, it just works fine. Don’t see any reference errors. Make sure you don’t have AdBlocker or other software preventing tracking which might be blocking the GoogleAnalytics `
Found this: The google-services.json file is generally placed in the app/ directory, but as of version 2.0.0-alpha3 of the plugin support was added for build types, which would make the following directory structure valid: Source Source 2
Filters based on countries or the name of the spam are not efficient because both can be easily changed by the spammers. Also, it isn’t possible to filter the (not set) entries in Analytics, this label is added after the visit is recorded when Analytics doesn’t find a value for that dimension. Instead what you should … Read more
The site sends fake traffic to your website, just to increase its own google page rank. sharebutton.to referrer spam is designed to create repeated site requests to the website it lands on. The benefits that referral spammers have with this tactic is that it will help them advertise the website they want people to visit … Read more
This is Google Analytics’s ‘Default Page’ feature. If you go to the Account Settings and Edit the Profile Information, you’ll see there’s a field called “Default Page”. It basically does what the theoretical filter I described above does: it automatically appends the default page (in this case, index.cfm) onto every page URL that doesn’t have … Read more