Tracking Downloads, Outgoing Clicks etc - Event Date: 28 Aug 2006 - 29 Aug 2006

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   If you are using the WhosOn Gateway to track visitors via the embedded page tags, you can still use WhosOn to track downloads (PDFs, EXEs etc) and outgoing clicks. In fact any page event can be tracked.

This is done using a version of the WhosOn Tracking Code, which sends an event back to the WhosOn server without displaying any image.

It can be included on pages along with the normal tracking code.

Download the script here:
http://www.whoson.com/scripts/whoson_call.js

Save it to the root of your site. Include it on your page like this:

<script language="javascript" src="/whoson_call.js"></script>

Then simply call it on the 'onclick' event of any page element, for example:

<A href="myfile.exe" onclick="javascript:writeWhosOn('gateway','domain','myfile.exe');">Click To Download</a>

Replace 'gateway' with the name of your Whoson Gateway (email us if you dont know your Gateway name) and 'domain' with the domain name of the site being monitored in WhosOn. The WhosOn gateway that you are using will be shown in the existing tracking code - look at the 'var sWOGateway = ' line.

The last parameter is the filename/pagename or event name that you want to appear in WhosOn when the element is tracked. 

For Example:

<A href="myfile.exe" onclick="javascript:writeWhosOn('gateway21.whoson.com','www.mysite.com','myfile.exe');">Click To Download</a>

For some more examples of tracking page events, see:
http://www.whoson.com/test.htm

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Stephen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Location: Stoke on Trent Posts: 1389	Post Options Post Reply Quote Stephen Report Post Quote Reply Calendar Event: Tracking Downloads, Outgoing Clicks etc Posted: 28 Aug 2006 at 10:05am
	If you are using the WhosOn Gateway to track visitors via the embedded page tags, you can still use WhosOn to track downloads (PDFs, EXEs etc) and outgoing clicks. In fact any page event can be tracked. This is done using a version of the WhosOn Tracking Code, which sends an event back to the WhosOn server without displaying any image. It can be included on pages along with the normal tracking code. Download the script here: http://www.whoson.com/scripts/whoson_call.js Save it to the root of your site. Include it on your page like this: <script language="javascript" src="/whoson_call.js"></script> Then simply call it on the 'onclick' event of any page element, for example: <A href="myfile.exe" onclick="javascript:writeWhosOn('gateway','domain','myfile.exe');">Click To Download</a> Replace 'gateway' with the name of your Whoson Gateway (email us if you dont know your Gateway name) and 'domain' with the domain name of the site being monitored in WhosOn. The WhosOn gateway that you are using will be shown in the existing tracking code - look at the 'var sWOGateway = ' line. The last parameter is the filename/pagename or event name that you want to appear in WhosOn when the element is tracked. For Example: <A href="myfile.exe" onclick="javascript:writeWhosOn('gateway21.whoson.com','www.mysite.com','myfile.exe');">Click To Download</a> For some more examples of tracking page events, see: http://www.whoson.com/test.htm

Patzer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Patzer Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 29 Aug 2006 at 12:50am
	That looks great for tracking clicks on download link and leaving the site, however when it comes to Adsense you may not alter the code in any way, that includes adding Javascript to the Adsense code itself. To Track Adsense via Google Analytics I include a script that I found on another site at the end of my page. How could I alter this script to have Whos on track the same activity. Thanks. -Mike This is the script I use to have analytics track Adsense: <script type="text/javascript"> function adsense_click() { if(window.status.indexOf('go to') == 0) { urchinTracker ('/AdSenseClick'); } } var elements; if(document.getElementsByTagName) { elements = document.body.getElementsByTagName("IFRAME"); } else if (document.body.all) { elements = document.body.all.tags("IFRAME"); } else { elements = Array(); } for(var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if(elements[i].src.indexOf('googlesyndication.com') > -1) { elements[i].onfocus = adsense_click; } } </script>

Stephen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Location: Stoke on Trent Posts: 1389	Post Options Post Reply Quote Stephen Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 29 Aug 2006 at 11:09am
	Hi, In the Adsense code you just need to add a call to the write_WhosOn function. Under the line: urchinTracker('/AdSenseClick'); Add: write_WhosOn('{gateway}','{yourdomain.com}','AdSenseClick'); Steve