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		<title>How to track banner clicks with Google Analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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There is a realy simple and free way to track your banner efficiency. If you don&#8217;t use any banner management system, or maybe doing a link/banner exchange with someone you will probably wanna see how much visitors did you get with that campaign.
So, this should do the trick&#8230;
Idea is to add some parametars to URL [...]]]></description>
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There is a realy simple and free way to track your banner efficiency. If you don&#8217;t use any banner management system, or maybe doing a link/banner exchange with someone you will probably wanna see how much visitors did you get with that campaign.</p>
<p>So, this should do the trick&#8230;<br />
Idea is to add some parametars to URL of your landing page so Google Analytics can differ visits that came from clicks on your banner or link.<br />
You can do that by adding &#8216;?ref=MyBanner&#8217; at the end of URL of your landing page.<br />
For example, if you want your banner to point to address: </p>
<p><em><span class="tip">http://www.domain.com/my-product.html</span></em></p>
<p>then your tracking link would be:</p>
<p><em><span class="tip">http://www.domain.com/my-product.html?ref=MyBanner</span></em></p>
<p>Then, code for flash banner button (Actionscript 2.0) would be:</p>
<p><em><span class="tip">on(release) {<br />
getURL(&#8220;http://www.domain.com/my-product.html?ref=MyBanner&#8221;, &#8220;_blank&#8221;);<br />
}</span></em></p>
<p>You can also add some more parametars to your URL if you want, just seperate them with &#8216;&amp;&#8217;, Example:</p>
<p><em><span class="tip">http://www.domain.com/my-product.html?ref=MyBanner&#038;site=linkexchange&#038;banner=468&#215;60_blue_banner</span></em></p>
<p>After some time login to Google Analytics and go to &#8216;Content overview&#8217; section, there are listed all your pages that have been visited.<br />
Filter your content with keyword that you added to your link, in this case: &#8216;ref=MyBanner&#8217;, and you will get number of page views that came form clicking on the banner<br />
1 page view = 1 click on banner.</p>
<p>I&#8217;v tested this with Google Analytics, but i think it should work with any other tool you use to mesure statistics of your site.</p>
<p>For more advanced way to track online campaigns with Google Analytics visit <a href="http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#038;answer=55540" target="_blank" title="Google Analytics help center">Google Analytics help center</a> and use <a href="http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578&#038;hl=en" title="URL  Builder to generate your tracking links" target="_blank">URL  Builder to generate your tracking links</a>.</p>
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