Tracking Outbound Links

Ive gone through the forum and the closest thing I found was some guy asking about tracking links through a redirect.

What I'd like to do is I think simple enough. I want to be able to filter traffic sources from the visitors whose actions resulted in an outgoing click (affiliate links).

I used to create virtual page views and then make a profile for 'outgoing links on GA to do this but I was told by somebody I regard highly "Clicky is the shit"... So without really checking Ive purchased an annual pro plan and can't figure out how to do this.

help?

Hi. I would agree that Clicky is "the shit", although you might say my opinion is biased.

There are two ways to do this. You can filter your visitors based on a page they viewed, including outbounds links. To do this, go to your bound links then click on the link and you will see the visitors who clicked it. Unfortunately, this method will only work for individual links.

If you have a number of unique links you want to track and be able to filter your visitors by all at the same time, what I'd suggest doing is using our clicky.log() function to track clicks on these links (in addition to the standard tracking we do automatically) so that they are all grouped under the same in the clicks report. Even though they're not the same URL, the goal here is to be able to filter all of the visitors at once.

Example:
<a href="http://yourlink.com" onclick="clicky.log('#affiliate-link','Affiliate link', 'outbound');">Click this link!</a>

Then you can go to your clicks report (under content) and filter all of oyur visitors based on this one item.

Docs are here:
http://getclicky.com/help/customization/manual

Okay thanks, just tried it and works like a charm. Thanks again for a wonderful product. But what am I going to do now with all those "Learning Google Analytics" books I have sitting on my shelf?

Great! Oh one thing I noticed a typo, in my click.log example, the "outbound" parameter link shouldn't be there. Leave it blank to defualt to "click". Unless you were just using the first option I mentioned in which case it doesn't matter.

As for the books... ebay?

i got it tracking but now i notice in the spy section, all my outgoing clicks are logged twice, once with the actual code and another with the parameters i specified.

also when i try to filter my results by Affiliate links, I only see the first page I tagged...

Okay I was using the goal function until I realized it can only be used once on a page. I have several outgoing links on a page and several on the sidebar I'd like to track.

I've been using the above specified methods but I have a question:

I have to manually tag outgoing links because I'm using a redirect.
I also want to use the above method to track multiple unique links, do I just add them all together? a class="clicky_log_outbound" href="outgoinglink.com" onclick="clicky.log('#affiliate-link','Affiliate link', 'outbound');"