Google analytics integration

Active development is only happening in the 6.x-2.x branch. Sounds like an interesting idea, and something that could be added in a more general way to apply to all ad types.

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Maybe try to create a hook that external module could implement to allow such integration?

It is not bad to use trackEvent as you suggested, but I think trackPageview is better, at least for some users needs.

Maybe we should simply add an option to add custom row to an Ad? Or is there another way to do it?

Thanks.

I like where this is going, I could see adding a check if the Google Analytics module is installed you could leverage the global google js on Dom load. That being said, I agree that this functionality should be in a sub-custom module not patched to Ads core.

I could see a set of fields to enable ad-tracking and to enter the code per add. This is useful if you are tracking a specific view or if you have "goals" or "funnels" you can to trigger. Which you may setup on landing pages or at the end of user event (which wouldn't be encapsulated in the Ads module but custom).

On a similar note, I may start researching adding a simple jquery hook to track "click" events on custom HTML ads too. If I figure it out I'll share a patch or post code for it.

Is there any update to this? I've tried that code at line 32, and it's not tracking events to google analytics Event Tracking.

I've also opened ad.module and changed line 280 to this

[code]$target = array('onclick' => 'window.open(this.href); return false;_gaq.push([\'_trackEvent\', \'Ad Click\', \'Sidebar Ad Click\', \''.$ad->url.' \'])');[/code]

I am novice at JavaScript, and don't know if I did that correctly. I am using the Display Type for the Ads of "Jquery" but I have tried plain Javascript and it didn't work either.

Any advice?

I've made this code work better for me. I have links open in new windows, and the code above didn't do it, so here is what I did.

Edit ad.module

Change the CASE starting at 279 from this, of course remove the PHP opening and closing tags.

 case '_blank':	
      $target = array('onclick' => 'window.open(this.href); return false;');
      break;

To this:

case '_blank':	
      $activesite = $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"];
      $address  = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
      $pieces = explode("&l=", $address);
      $finalpage = $pieces[1];
      $page = urldecode($finalpage);
      $target = array('onclick' => '_gaq.push(["_trackEvent", "Sidebar Ad Click","'.$activesite.'", "'.$page.'"]); window.open(this.href); return false;');
      break;

Drupal 6 is EOL and no longer supported. Closing this as outdated for that reason. Thanks for your contribution!