Campaign Tracking YOURLS in Google Analytics
YOURLS is a URL shortening service you can run on your own server, and it comes with a Wordpress plugin called YOURLS Wordpress to Twitter. In the past I’ve used WP to Twitter, but since it doesn’t support YOURLS I’ve had to switch.
I’ve asked the author of YOURLS Wordpress to Twitter to add Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Code with a custom field for authors to add their own identifier, but he has been too busy updating the YOURLS scripts, so I’ve hacked the plugin code to allow us to use Campaign Tracking now.
Google Analytics and Google Adsense Code Placement Order
There have been a lot of complaints that Google Analytics does not always track Google AdSense data accurately, and there is a reason for the errors.
In order for Google Analytics to track Google AdSense data properly the code for your Google Ad Manager, AdSense Analytics Code (ASAC), Google AdSense ads, and Google Analytics code, must be placed into your web site template files in the proper order.
If you use Google Ad Manager then that code will be pasted into the your template files of your website first in between the HTML <head></head> tags as shown in the example below.
Tracking Multiple Domains with Google Adsense Analytics Code
Bloggers, and web site owners, that have more than one domain name may be surprised to learn that they cannot track their AdSense statistics automatically.
Google purchased a web site statistics company called Urchin many years ago, and turned it into a free service called Google Analytics. Last year Google made it possible to link your AdSense account to Google Analytics. Domain name owners who had a single domain name, as well as owners of multiple domain names, linked their domains to Google Analytics so their AdSense traffic could be tracked, but there is an extra step that owners of multiple domain names may have missed.
First let’s check to see if Google Analytics is tracking your AdSense traffic. Go to the Google Analytics home page and login. You should see your domain name listed, so click the View report link.
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