RhinoFish - 5:41 pm on Sep 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

You've got a REALLY great feature built into GA, but it's hard to discover. The onClick javascript trick (aka functionality) that can be added to links so that clicking them can trigger completion of a defined goal. This is useful in so many circumstances that it makes my mind spin. But it's availability of FAR from obvious, even to regular users. You desperately need to link to it in the goals creations process, as an example, so people can grasp how they can do this. It's functionality works for many marketers, but is especially useful for goal tracking for affiliates where they don't have access to the shopping cart's confirmation page for purchase confirmation tracking. In this case, clicking through from an affiliate site to the merchant can be defined within GA as a goal by tagging any affiliate link the webmaster wants, and that click-thru (presumably to a merchant) can be used as a proxy for a likely purchase, or at least serious interest.

Your help file explaining it is here:
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And of course, this isn't just for affiliates! Any site that sends traffic outside of it's domain can use this feature as well. And, when you think about it, it's not just confined to external site hand-offs either - it's logging links to any destination that you want to analyze, whether external or within your own doamin.

So feedback is good job! But do a better job as explaining how a webmaster might configure useful goals within GA.