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mustacheMcGee
mustacheMcGee

Reputation: 501

Tracking individual visitors in Wordpress and Google Analytics

Here is what I'd like to achieve: I have a landing page and a list of contacts. I want to send each of my contacts the link and be able to see the analytics (duration, visitor flow, conversion) for each individual. Most importantly, I just want to confirm they visit the link.

What I'm thinking of doing is using a Wordpress URL parameter to add a unique identifier to the page for each contact, and then track those pages in Google Analytics.

What is the best practice? Is there a better/faster/easier way to do track individual visitors in Wordpress and Google Analytics?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 231

Answers (1)

Goku Nymbus
Goku Nymbus

Reputation: 581

You should be building your own url for each user. I would build a url first with this link, then write a script or something to create a unique url for each user in your contacts list.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en

Hope that helps!

EDIT: You can also try just adding ?contact_id=99999, visit the link and then go to Google Analytics, look at the live view, and see if your parameter shows up.

Whats Happening Now: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html

Parameters do show up in GA because on most shopping carts each page, product etc have url parameters that are unique, and can be viewed from GA. If it didn't most website applications would not be compatible with GA.

Upvotes: 1

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