Tracking specific links that visitors click on?

[gdawg]

First of all I was wondering if alot of you all look at what specific links users are clicking on within a certain page? I think this could be useful when doing A/B testing etc.. but I do have some concerns. The biggest issue is that alot of the sites are work on have the same link multiple times on a page (in the topnav, footer, etc..) Currently, I am using ClickTracks Pro and it does have a feature that you can set a parameter that distinguishes between two links that are found on the same page (ie.?link=topnav,?link=bottomnav) My major concern with this is from an SEO perspective I would think that if some of my links have this parameter on them then the SERPS are going to index both urls and it will essentially be duplicate content. Has anyone used this feature in ClickTracks? Did you run into any issues? Can anyone give me any other suggestions or methods to accomplish this?

[jatar_k]

I wouldn't add the param to the links, I never want params on links if I can help it

I guess it would depend on what page you have multiple links to. If it is something like a contact page then it may not really matter as that wouldn't usually be a well ranking page. If it were a content page that ranks then I would just leave it.

If it was absolutely necessary to track it all then I would only have a single link to it on any given page and then you could test it's location individually. Test it in the topnav for a period then test over a period of the same length in the footer to decide which location gets better clicks.