Hello all,
Our contact us form has several webpaths remaped. What's interesting
is that links on our website that point directly to the page come up in
Google Analytics content overlay with number of times it was used,
however links that point to remap come up with 0.
Anybody know why???
I can't workout the point of this content overlay feature, I thought
great, I will be able to tell if people click on contact us at the top
of the page or in a footer, but it seems to work based on a landing
page. What it means is that all links pointing to the same page
display the same number of clicks, that's why I created a remap, but
it doesn't seem to work.
Any thoughts? Am I missing something?
Hey Eric,
My experience with the Google Analytics overlay is the same as yours - GA records each time a page is loaded, not each time a link is clicked. With remaps, Matrix redirects the requests to the new/actual URL of the asset, so the visit will always be recorded against the actual URL.
The one way I have found around this is to use a get parameter in the URL (i.e. ‘http://domain.com/home?main_nav’, http://domain.com/home?footer'%3b%29 but it is a little dirty as users will see it on the front end. Maybe there is a way of doing it with Javascript interacting with ga.js?
Thanks, at least there is a solution. Although implementing it is hard on a manually created links.
There are jquery and other javascript plugins to do the link rewrites for you automatically.