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Custom 'outgoing links' for google analytics external links tracking

This is a discussion on Custom 'outgoing links' for google analytics external links tracking within the Sitemap Features Archive forums, part of the vBulletin Links & Resources category; Heya, I have a suggestion related to VBseo & Google analytics. Could you have a field where you can add ...

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    Custom 'outgoing links' for google analytics external links tracking

    Heya,

    I have a suggestion related to VBseo & Google analytics.

    Could you have a field where you can add custom files that are actually external links but are redirected. For example, you may use redirect.php?site=www.blah.com so you could put redirect.php in that field and it'd give them the same external link tracking code as it does with normal outgoing links. Or you could have /outgoing/1, /outgoing/2, so if you put "/outgoing" in there, it'd track all of them.
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    Re: Custom 'outgoing links' for google analytics external links tracking

    Hello Nick,

    you can manually modify these links to track them in Google Analytics:
    HTML Code:
    <a onclick="urchinTracker ('/outgoing/2');"  href="redirect.php?site=www.blah.com">text</a> 
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    Re: Custom 'outgoing links' for google analytics external links tracking

    Yea but I thought vbSEO automatically inserted this code to links sitewide, automatically? I don't really want to have to add nofollow to every single time I link to one of these pages.
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    Re: Custom 'outgoing links' for google analytics external links tracking

    Yes, vBSEO does this automatically for all external pages and manual link changes make sense only if you don't have a lot of links.
    Currently we have a "feature freeze" for vBSEO3.0.0, but this may be a good addition for the next release.
    Thanks for your suggestion!
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