My client is running a number of print & online ad's and wants to gage the response from each on their website. Each ad has a suffix to denote the ad being responded to, so:
I've setup a htaccess file to redirect the visitors to the homepage thinking that Google Analytics would record the hits to the individual URLs for each ad. Sadly, this doesn't appear to be the case though. I only seem to be able to retrieve the info for landing pages.
Is there a better package out there that actually gives an overview of page requests? ... or a better way of solving the issue?
.htaccess directives are carried out before the page is served out to the useragent so the redirect is happening before the analytics script is triggered.
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Thanks for the feedback. Ok, I would try a header redirect, but the site uses a CMS that prohibits PHP in the page.
Any ideas?
You mean you could not use PHP code in the page?
Also, since you are using a CMS, I do think you have dynamic pages, that is, not real html file exists, so how could you insert any php redirect code there?
ya, i agree, google analytics is one of the best of its kind out there, maybe you could try yahoo's, they have released some sort of analytic products here but never tried it, they slow me down.
Is there a better package out there that actually gives an overview of page requests? ... or a better way of solving the issue?
opentracker offers a report called Most Popular Pages which can be sorted in two ways:
1. by page title and/OR
2. by url
Which means that you can sort your results by url and ctrl+f to find individual urls - is this what you are looking for?
What's reported on is the number of times each page is served / loaded. IN other words the page must fully load in the visitor's browser for the click to be recorded.
yes, just to clarify - the links should be coded in the "destination url".
Whenever a PPC campaign is created, it is best to use a Destination URL to tell yourself where the traffic came from. That way whatever tracking program you are using will hopefully display the url to you, and let you filter by url.
you will then view the incoming referred traffic by url, in order to see the code that you placed in there. Does this make sense?
My client is running a number of print & online ad's and wants to gage the response from each on their website. Each ad has a suffix to denote the ad being responded to, so:
I've setup a htaccess file to redirect the visitors to the homepage thinking that Google Analytics would record the hits to the individual URLs for each ad. Sadly, this doesn't appear to be the case though. I only seem to be able to retrieve the info for landing pages.
Is there a better package out there that actually gives an overview of page requests? ... or a better way of solving the issue?
I don't no any program like Google Analytics. thanks for the thread i learned new...
