Subscribe Feed (RSS)Jump Page To Track “RSS Subscription Goal” Via Google Analytics
September 13th, 2007 by Vlad | Filed under Other (Fom Old Blog).After writing yesterday’s article about Somoney post, I found myself playing around in implementing some tracking suggested by Jeremy. I do not particularly spend much money on promoting this blogs. But if I like the numbers, I maybe “knocking on your door” to talk with you about advertising, if your website is sending my way some traffic that is.
Before reading Jeremy’s post I did not put much thought into comparing the income on this or other blogs along side of the number of RSS subscriptions.
In his post Jeremy came short of posting the exact code of what he calls the “jump page”, so I have attempted to create one of my own which you can see at the end of this post. I would highly recommend to follow his blog, since in the comments he indicated of posting the code sometime next week. I am sure he will post more sophisticated solution.
Anyway, if you pay close attention, my big RSS button along with the “feed counter” image are linked to http://sageblogger.com/subscribe.html - the jump page which sends visitors to this blog’s feed over at FeedBurner while collecting some info via Google Analytics. Feel free to use it for yourself, just remember to replace “YOURFEEDSURL” with the actual url for your feed and use your own code from Google Analytics.
In the code below the “CONTENT” has two parameters. One is telling the browser to refresh the page after certain amount of time, the second is the url where the visitor will be taken to, in this case it is the feed’s URL. I have set the time value to 0(zero) so that visitor does not actually see the “jump page”, increasing this number will mean that your visitor may be able to see the page so it may be a good idea to put some content there. It can be just simple explanation that they are being redirected to another page.
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=YOURFEEDSURL" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
</head>
<body>
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "XX-XXXXXX-X";
urchinTracker();
</script>
</body>
</html>
Of ourse if you have a better solution please let me know.
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