[BNM] AdWords Conversion Tracking

[Ali]

thanks Alastair, but I think this is how you just record links as pageviews 
in analytics and not how to score adword conversions i.e. where is the 
unique conversion id for each link?

ali

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alastair James" <al.james at gmail.com>
To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [BNM] AdWords Conversion Tracking


> Adding:
>
> onclick="urchinTracker(this.href);"
>
> Should work.... (well it does for me)...
>
> Al
>
> 2008/5/2 Ali <ali at nubz.com>:
>> Hi
>>
>>  A site I am working with has a need to track Google AdWord conversions 
>> that are links to word docs and pdfs (i.e. no pageviews). At first I 
>> thought best to redirect the links to a download script which would 
>> handle the download and host the conversion code but it transpires most 
>> of the links are to docs stored on other domains (also owned by the 
>> client) - I found a purported hack [1] to trigger conversion code with 
>> onclick events in the links but it doesn't appear to work on a test I am 
>> doing (i.e. Google is not registering my test conversions) - does anyone 
>> know of a tried and tested method for doing this? Or should we resort to 
>> using an interim pageview for target downloads (not very user friendly)?
>>
>>  Fanks.
>>
>>  Ali
>>
>>  [1] http://blog.vermorel.com/?p=82
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