Need help setting up a Google analytics goal.
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I'm just now getting my feet wet with the goals in GA. I'm trying to figure out how many visitors to a certain page, click on a certain link (which takes them no a certain page on my site.)
What's the best way to go about this?
Thanks.
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Thanks Dan and Ben.
I'm wanting to track someone clicking on a certain link.
I'll check out those docs!
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Hi
There's two ways:
- Do you care which exact link they click on? (ie you could have a main menu and footer link) - if so you will add an actual parameter to the link to track it as an event. That's the more involved method, but it might be to see which specific button etc is being used.
- Or do you not care what link they click on, just that they go from page 1->page 2? (This is the method Ben is referring to). Then, you can pretty much do what he says - set it up as a Goal for a URL destination.
Hope that helps!
-Dan
BTW - all the Google Docs are really good - here's the one on Goals
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Depending on how detailed you want it...
Inside the analytics dashboard:
Go into "Admin" --> "Goals" --> "Goal 1"
On that page you want to set up a "URL destination" then on the bottom you want to check "goal funnel" and fill in as many pages as you want in that funnel.
Obviously it can get very detailed but that is the general idea and setup.
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Hey thanks Ben!
I was just curious how to do it. For instance if someone visits my page about blue widgets, how many of those people visit the link to "come learn about red widgets" also....
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I would love to help you out with this. Or..are you looking for a quick how to article or something?
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