Comments on: Tracking Newsletter Subscribers, Affiliate Links, Downloads, and Outbound Links With Google Analytics

By: seo company canada

seo company canada — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:29:59 +0000

Here one of the way to protect your affiliate links and your commissions:
Scripts and software tracking:
You can also use software as well as various scripts to track the click-throughs from customers. This software will never display the affiliate links directly and instead show the link to the tracking software that has been installed on the affiliate’s – marketer’s website.

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:27:01 +0000

I wasn’t sure if maybe you posted that because it was required in certain circumstances. I knew it wasn’t required in my setup, but beyond that, I wasn’t sure. Thanks for stopping by and confirming that and providing some very good info on your blog.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:04:10 +0000

Hi Brent, thanks for the mention and link! You’re right, placing the tracking code at the top of the page appears to have been unnecessary. Google’s guidelines stated that this was necessary in order for eventtracking to run, but when I mentioned this to our developers for implementation, they didn’t see why/how it was necessary to do so, and indeed it turned out to be unnecessary.