Gaudicia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just started looking into JQuery and I have a few questions. Mostly
> about how to make tagging my links with google analytics tracking
> faster.
>
> I want to be able to track my outgoing links, which I've read is
> possible, but I really haven't see anything about tracking third party
> booking engines.
>
> So basically what I want is this.
>
> If I have links linking to my domain or an eCommerce or booking
> engine, I don't want those links to be tagged as outgoing. However,
> if the link is to a booking engine/eCommerce I want them to be tagged
> like this:
>
> <a href=" https://www.securecart.com/?store=parameters";
> onclick="pageTracker._link(this.href); return false;">Purchase Now</a>
> or like this <a
> href="javascript:openWindow(pageTracker._getLinkerUrl('http://
> bookingengine.com'))">Booking Engine</a>
Well, I'd avoid the href="javascript:...." technique as it wont fail
very gracefully with a non-javascript enabled browser and as this is a
booking engine, I'd imagine this could affect your bottom line.
I'd generate all your links with a certain class and then do something like:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('a.tracker').click(function(){ /// do the tracking; return true });
});
On all pages. That will apply the tracking function to all href's click
element and allow the click to bubble down to be handled by the browser
in a new way (sans javascript). If you want a new window, just use
target="_blank" as normal.
> I also want to add this onsubmit="pageTracker._linkByPost(this)" to
> the forms that are submitting to the booking engine.
Again, just put a class on your form and use a similar event
registration function to above in order to do this automatically.
HTHs
Col
