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Tracking site overlay links with Google Analytics

link appears twice on page - how to see what's clicking?

         

genem

2:56 pm on Mar 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I am using site overlay feature in Google Analytics (nice!).
Often I would have the same link twice or even more in the html. Analytics shows the same numbers for every link occurance, because they all target the same page.
How can I differentiate the links to the same page so that I can see exactly what users are clicking?

One thing I thought of putting anchors to links like so:
"page.htm#section1". But then, will it have problems with search engine spiders treating each anchor as a different page?

genem

9:11 pm on Mar 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Anybody?

teaperson

9:26 pm on Mar 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I believe most search engines ignore the anchor tag, but you need to weigh whether that chance is more important than dis-aggregating those links clicks.

incubationgroup

9:51 pm on Mar 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Don't to take the risk, won't do.