I found a really cool feature on Google Analytics. I can actually follow someone as they travel through my site going from page to page. It shows me the percent of people who clicked on different links on a particular page. So as Alvin and his company from Shanghai traversed my site on Tuesday I could actually follow them as the went from home screen to Clickcard, to Clickboards, to the About page and then the the Clickcard category and so forth. I couldn’t tell which exact button was clicked by who because there was more than one person searching my site that day, but I could see two or three distinct paths.
The problem however is when they visited the Clickboard page. The Clickboards are supposed to be ads. Now Google Analytics will track ads but they have to be registered. My Clickboards are not registered, so I was unable to see if they clicked on them and how many times and how far they went through the Clickboards. Very upsetting because that was kind of the point of their visit. Tomorrow I will have to find out how to register my Clickboards with the Google Analytics. My first assumption is to add the tag to the Flash coding and then repost them. And another way is somehow with this WordPress site. It has an ad tracker too but haven’t explored this in detail yet. Both options seem viable but I like the new Google Analytics tool so I am going to explore that first.
