[BNM] AdWords Conversion Tracking

[Alastair James]

Arh...

Well I got round that by setting up a goal for the regex url
'/download/.*'... Then using this JS:

onclick="urchinTracker('/download/'+this.href.replace('http://', ''));"

i.e. it would register http://www.mydomain.com/blar.pdf as
/download/www.mydomain.com/blar.pdf

There probably is a better way involving triggering the goal directly though....

Al

2008/5/2 Ali <ali at nubz.com>:
> thanks Alastair, but I think this is how you just record links as pageviews
>  in analytics and not how to score adword conversions i.e. where is the
>  unique conversion id for each link?
>
>  ali
>
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Alastair James" <al.james at gmail.com>
>  To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
>  Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 1:12 PM
>  Subject: Re: [BNM] AdWords Conversion Tracking
>
>
>  > Adding:
>  >
>  > onclick="urchinTracker(this.href);"
>  >
>  > Should work.... (well it does for me)...
>  >
>  > Al
>  >
>  > 2008/5/2 Ali <ali at nubz.com>:
>  >> Hi
>  >>
>  >>  A site I am working with has a need to track Google AdWord conversions
>  >> that are links to word docs and pdfs (i.e. no pageviews). At first I
>  >> thought best to redirect the links to a download script which would
>  >> handle the download and host the conversion code but it transpires most
>  >> of the links are to docs stored on other domains (also owned by the
>  >> client) - I found a purported hack [1] to trigger conversion code with
>  >> onclick events in the links but it doesn't appear to work on a test I am
>  >> doing (i.e. Google is not registering my test conversions) - does anyone
>  >> know of a tried and tested method for doing this? Or should we resort to
>  >> using an interim pageview for target downloads (not very user friendly)?
>  >>
>  >>  Fanks.
>  >>
>  >>  Ali
>  >>
>  >>  [1] http://blog.vermorel.com/?p=82
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