{"id":11543,"date":"2017-07-07T16:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.process.st\/templates\/advanced-tracking\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T20:45:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:45:55","slug":"advanced-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.process.st\/templates\/advanced-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overview <\/h2>\n
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Client Setup for Google Affiliate Tracking<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The goal is to ensure we track your original traffic source to your website as the source for pageviews and events on localmed.com. Normally, once a user transfers from your website to localmed.com, a new session is created and your website is treated as the traffic source.<\/p>\n

For more information: Cross-domain tracking Documentation on Google<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Step 1: Setup Auto-linking for localmed.com <\/h2>\n
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Cross-domain tracking works by sharing a unique client ID<\/a> between a source domain and a destination domain. This is a two step process:<\/p>\n

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  1. The source domain needs to ensure all URLs pointing to the destination domain contain the client ID of the source domain.<\/li>\n
  2. The destination domain needs to know to check for the presence of a client ID in the URL once a user navigates there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The linker plugin accomplishes this by adding a linker parameter<\/a> to URLs that point to the destination domain. The linker parameter contains the client ID as well as the current timestamp and browser metadata encoded within it. The timestamp and metadata are used to avoid problems with URL sharing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Add auto-linking for localmed.com by using the linker plugin. Here\u2019s an example snippet:<\/p>\n

    ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X', 'auto');
    ga('send', 'pageview');
    ga('require', 'linker');
    ga('linker:autoLink', ['localmed.com']);<\/pre>\n
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    Form more details:  Linker Plugin Documentation on Google<\/a><\/p>\n
    If you\u2019re using Google Tag Manager, follow the steps in this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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     Step 2: Add a Referral Exclusion for localmed.com <\/h2>\n
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    Referral traffic<\/em> is the segment of traffic that arrives on your website through another source, like through a link on another domain. Analytics automatically recognizes where traffic was immediately before arriving on your site, and displays the domain names of these sites as the referral traffic sources<\/em> in your reports.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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    Adding referral traffic sources<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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    1. Sign in to your Analytics account<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. Click Admin<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    3. In the ACCOUNT<\/em> column, use the dropdown to select the Analytics account that contains the property you want to work with.<\/li>\n
    4. In the PROPERTY<\/em> column, use the dropdown to select a property.<\/li>\n
    5. Click Tracking Info<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    6. Click Referral Exclusion List<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    7. To add a domain, click +ADD REFERRAL EXCLUSION<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    8. Enter localmed.com and your own domain<\/em><\/li>\n
    9. Click Create<\/strong> to save.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n
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      For more details visit: Referral Exclusion Documentation on Google<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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       Step 3: Setup Reporting Views and Filters <\/h2>\n
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      This allows you to distinguish LocalMed pages from your domain pages<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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      By default, Analytics only includes the page path and page name, not the domains name. For example, you might see your pages appear in the Site Content report like this:<\/p>\n