Tracking Outbound Link Clicks

Can anyone point me to an extension or code sample for how to
track outbout link clicks? I have a customer who wants to track how
many times a link is clicked that points to an external
site.

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> Can anyone point me to an extension or code sample for
how to track
> outbout link clicks? I have a customer who wants to
track how many times a
> link is clicked that points to an external site.

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Using Adobe Muse v6 to build my website and want to set up outbound URL tracking on a number of links.
I have the correct code snippets from https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1136920?hl=en
<script type="text/javascript">
function trackOutboundLink(link, category, action) {
try {
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', category , action]);
} catch(err){}
setTimeout(function() {
document.location.href = link.href;
}, 100);
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<a href="http://www.example.com" onClick="trackOutboundLink(this, 'Outbound Links', 'example.com'); return false;">
However Adobe Muse adds the a href code to the basic links in the back end, all I usually add is the http://www.example.com part.
Does anyone know a way to add the onClick="trackOutboundLink(this, 'Outbound Links', 'example.com'); return false; string to my URL to make it work?
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But it doesn't seem to work... Help appreciated.
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Hello,
As per the instructions on link below you need to insert the code in <Head> section of the page.
Conversion Tracking and Optimization | Facebook Help Center | Facebook
Once you receive the code from Facebook you can insert it in Muse site.
Open the page in Design mode and go to Page > Page Properties > Metadata > Html for <head>
Paste the code in the space mentioned in the screenshot and you should be all set
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Techie Question about iWeb, outbound links, and Google Analytics

Hi,
I have a kind of pretty technical question about using Google Analytics (GA) with iWeb sites to measure clicks on outbound links. Here's the setup:
1) My website's online, and GA is working properly.
2) I don't sell stuff directly, but I do have a "Purchase" page which contains a link to a specific Amazon page.
3) I'm pretty sure I can measure how many people go to the Purchase page using GA, but how do I measure whether visitors click on the Amazon link? It would be interesting to me to be able to gauge what the conversion rate is; that is, how many people actually proceed to purchase the product at Amazon.
I've checked the GA instructions and there's a page about manually tracking clicks on outbound links but it requires some code inputting. I know zero about coding, but I'm pretty sure that in iWeb you can't get access to the source code to input the required code.
Am I wrong about this? And if I am, then does anyone here know how to measure the clickthrough rate?
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I don't know about the link tracking but you could have the link take you to a redirect page which automatically sends them to Amazon.com after a preset time, 0 seconds to whatever you'd like. You can put a counter on that redirect page, like StatCounter. StatCounter can tell you how many, from where they came, i.e country and area, repeat visits, etc.
Tutorials #12 & #13 describe how to put a visible counter on a page but with a redirect page you wouldn't have to bother since it wouldn't be seen. You can get all of your information from your account on the StatCounter site.
The redirect page would be a simple plain text page titled redirect.html and would look like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="0; Destination URL">
<title>Redirecting or whatever you'd like to appear at the top of the browser</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
0 Is the number of seconds to wait before redirecting the visitor. If set to zero the visitor would not know they were being redirected. Replace Destination URL with the Amazon URL you want them to go to.
OT

Can you track source of clicks on the "clickable" icons

Can you track source of clicks on the "clickable" icons or track links in Dreamweaver? I know about Google analytics for a page body but don't know for clicks.
Thanks in advance

It's called "event tracking".
Here I will use Google Analytics and jQuery to record click event from any element with the class "clickable".
<p class="clickable" id="clickable-element-1">Clickable element 1</p>
<a class="clickable" id="clickable-element-2" title="Clcikable element 2" href="#">Clickable element 2</a>
<img class="clickable" id="clickable-element-3" src="img/image.jpg" alt="Clickable elment 3" />
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Tracking external links

My HMTLDB application manages many external links.
I'd like to somehow count which of these is used more often to be able to do things like:
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Any suggestions on best methods to track external links?
Anyone else done something like this?
(i.e. use redirects or some other method)
Thanks,
Erik

Erik ,
You need to include your workspace ID in the proc call
begin
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Is possible to use href= and onclick=Ajax.request to track outgoing link?

Hi,
I´m new in Oracle Apex and i'm trying now to track outgoing links on my Apex 3.2.1 application.
When the user clicks on a link of my application that redirects to an outgoing site, I want them to be taken to the site (href) and I also want a background script that register in a oracle table this "click".
For example, i have this link in an APEX page:
When user cliks in this link, i would like to execute in background an oracle procedure, with a parameter. Let´s call this procedure, for example:
SP_REGISTRA_ACESS_LINK(:P19_COD_TOPICO).
This procedure insert a record in a table called BAC_ACESS, storing in it the SYSDATE and the value of ":P19_COD_TOPICO".
Is it possible to link to a new site and call an AJAX request at the same time?
Could some one give me a example of how i can do it? How i can implement it in my Apex 3.2.1 application?
I´m working with Apex 3.2.1 and RDBMS 9i. I can not upgrade none of these releases, cause Apex is installed in a production database that can be upgrade now to 10g/11g.
Best regards,
Sergio Coutinho

Jari,
Very interesting. I didin´t know that this APEX_UTIL exists...
Although that, i developed a customized access control to specific "media itens" of my application, for example:
- Download of documents or programs;
- Play of videos;
- Play of audios;
- Acess of CLOB records of a table, that were displayed as a kind of HTML page;
- Outgoing links;
I do not want to control all the Apex application as, for example, tabs, report pages, charts, forms, etc.
All these media itens are stored on oracle tables, and where displayed in apex reports. Customer clicks on a link of this report and the media is displayed to the user.
I have sucess to control quite all the medias display.
The only one i could not have success to control are these outgoing links. These links were stored in a oracle table and were displayed in a apex interactive report.
I would like to know if i can implement my custom rutine to register these access. I think that i could to it with Ajax scripts.
Best regards,
Sergio Coutinho

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How to open show detail item on ADF link click

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Can anybody tell me how to open show detail item tab on link click ??
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Hi,
what Frank is saying..
1. select showdetailitem component
2. go to disclosure property
3. attach a managed bean variable (return true/false)
4. in the commandLink method set the variable true/false depending on requirement
or
1. select showdetailitem component
2. create a binding in the managed bean
3. in the commandLink method set showdetailitembinding.setDisclosed(true/false);
4. add PPR
refer http://jobinesh.blogspot.in/2010/12/programmatically-disclosing.html
~Abhijit
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I sometimes send emails which contain a number of web links.
Am I able to track:
who opens their email?
which links they click on?
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Hi everyone!
I have one doubt in JSP....
I am having one JSP page (say Home page) which consists various url links(with a href tag).
After clicking on to any of the links I want to keep the record of which link was clicked(i.e. which JSP page is called)
I want to test it on home page itself instead of going into each JSP page to check which JSP was called everytime when user click on the available url on Home page.
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