Title: How to Add Google Analytics Event Tracking in WordPress?
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2- Do you want to track traffic on your website then
event tracking in Google Analytics will - definitely going to help you.
- In this, I will cover
- What is event tracking in google analytics?
- Upgrade to Universal Analytics Code,
- Creating your Event in Google Analytics,
- Adding Google Analytics Event Tracking onClick,
3- What is event tracking in google analytics?
- The Event Tracking allows you to measure user
interaction on your site. These interactions can
be, playing videos, submitting forms, clicking on
a button, downloading files, etc. - Lets say youve added a video to your product
page, and currently wish to grasp however
effective it's for your conversions. However, the
Event chase permits you to trace what percentage
users play videos, so you'll decide for yourself. - By Using Event Tracking, you can see how users
interacted with the form. This is also for
downloading a file on a page. You can track how
many users download the file by using track
tracking and which button was clicked on the
page. - The Event tracking is different from tracking
links in Google Analytics. Also, you can track
links in WordPress by using Google Analytics by
adding UTM source to the link.
4Before you start, you will need to setup and
install Google Analytics on your WordPress
site. Upgrade to Universal Analytics Code Now,
at present there are two types of Google
Analytics implemented on sites. However, Google
is slowly pressing the old code by asking
webmasters to use the newer universal Analytics
code. Then you are already using the new
Universal Analytics code. No action is necessary,
and you can move on to the next step
5- Creating your Event in Google Analytics,
- The very first, you have to create your event in
your Google Analytics account. To do this, you
have to log in to your Analytics dashboard and
click the Admin link at the top. - There are three columns below the Admin page.
Click the Goals link below the View column. - Click the new goal button to create a goal. With
the goal setup options, you need to choose a
custom option and then click the next button to
continue.You need to provide a title for your
custom goal, its something that will help you
identify the goal within Google Analytics. - Under the goal type, you have to choose the
event. Thereafter click the next step button to
continue. - The final step is to provide goal details. You
must enter the event condition here. Analytics
will count the conversion if all these conditions
match. - Lastly, click the create goal button to save and
activate the goal.
6- Adding Google Analytics Event Tracking onClick
- The easiest way to add Google Analytics event
tracking is by using the onclick method.
- When a user clicks on an element, this method
only sends the event conditions to - Google Analytics.
- For example, we are tracking users who click on
the eBook download link.We will add the - onClick parameter to the download link
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- You will have to replace the action, label,
category, and value with the conditions of
your event. At the end your
download link will look like this
7CONCLUSION Here, we have discussed How to add
Google Analytics Event Tracking in WordPress?
Often, we concluded What is Event Tracking in
Google Analytics? We hope this presentation will
help you to add Google analytics event. Thus, if
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