Campaigning for your blog, everyone is doing it in a way. Posting your links on Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc. But how about really tracking them specifically?
It’s turned on by default in your Google Analytics account. So why leave those table/results empty? Only thing you should do is add some extra variables to your URL’s.
See Feedburner for example:
- utm_source=feedburner
- utm_medium=feed
- utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rive+%28Rive.be+%7C+Blog+-+Rien+Verbrugghe%29
- utm_content=Google+Reader
http://blog.rive.be/2010/01/12/defect-swfobject-2-2-dynamic-embed-method-on-explorer-8/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rive+%28Rive.be+%7C+Blog+-+Rien+Verbrugghe%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Now why did you use “Flash” in your title?
Well doing it in AS3 like explained here in this article didn’t work for me.
tracker = new GATracker(this, "UA-XXXXXXX-1", "AS3", false); tracker.visualDebug = false; tracker.setCampaignTrack(true); tracker.setCampMediumKey("method"); tracker.setCampContentKey("description"); tracker.setCampNameKey("offer_type"); tracker.setCampSourceKey("source");
This should have to track incoming URL’s like http://www.rive.be/?source=rive.be&method=referral&offer_type=Showcase&description=My+website but it didn’t… (Apparently you cannot specify your own Key’s from Flash.) Just use the standard “utm_…” ones.
Tip: In your Twitter profile changing your URL with “utm_” vars will not work. Twitter removes them on saving.
