Tracking visitors with Google Analytics
Sorry to anyone who got a few old posts through from my blog last week. I've been playing with the Google Analytics code a bit and trying out new things, one of which is a way of tracking when people have come to my site after clicking a link in one of my feeds. I found an interesting article about campaign tagging which describes how to add extra query string parameters that Google Analytics will read and use to split up my statistics for me.
If you're adding my feed to an aggregator or a public listing please feel free to add a utm_source to the url so I can tell where people are coming from, as well as which type of feed they're coming from; I will pass through the utm_source to the links in the feed. For example, I've got this in the facebook importer: http://www.milk-hub.net/blog/feed?utm_source=facebook.
Next step is to track when people read the articles.
So you want to spy on me... using google analytics? One has to question one's motives
Mon 9th June, 2008
Heh, cheers for the comment Dan. I'm more interested in just finding out usage information for my feeds, website, etc. I also like to keep trying out new toys and features to see if they're useful for any other sites I might build
Tue 10th June, 2008
so for google reader, would this work ok?
http://... ... /feed?utm_source=googlereaderTue 10th June, 2008
I'm not so fussed about getting a source for people who read my feeds in an aggregator like Google Reader, but more if they are being syndicated like the LSUCS Planet and facebook. But yes that link would work
Tue 10th June, 2008
Glad you enjoyed the post! Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik is another great blog on analytics.
Wed 1st October, 2008