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Paul G
Paul G

Reputation: 13

Is it possible for googletags to track clicks from a referrer website?

I want to distribute an ad to some my friend's websites, but how do i go about tracking the clicks from their site, going to my site?

I was looking at google-tags and google-analytics and i can't see any resources how or where i can start with that. I imagine that i should create a javascript snipper for the add, but is it still possible to track it?

Im expecting that when the user from a friend's site click my add, i would see in analytics the event and where the click came from. thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

XTOTHEL
XTOTHEL

Reputation: 5208

Normally without doing anything, this traffic would be tracked as a "referral" from your friends' site.

You can find it under "Acquisition > All Traffic > Referrals"

Alternatively, you can use UTM parameters and have unique parameters for each of your friends.

Example link that you would give to your friend: https://www.mywebsite.com/?utm_campaign=myfriendsgroup&utm_source=friend1&utm_medium=banner

When someone visits your site by clicking on that link, they will show up under Acquisition > Campaigns > All Campaigns. In this case you will see the "myfriend" campaign.

You can then segment these users and look at their activity.

Upvotes: 2

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