I am having trouble with the code.

I’m trying to track a button click that reveals a phone number.

Phone: Click to Show

(08) 8250 0022

$(“button”).click(function () {
$(“p”).show(“slow”);
});

Not sure as to where to put the tracking code.

When I do try to throw it in somewhere, Business Catalyst likes to eat up some of the code and vomit it back out.

Thanks for your help!

As I understand it, Google’s logic is this: If there’s a single page visit but an “event” during that visit then that’s not a bounce. The event signifies an interaction with the site.

As mentioned, an auto-play video (which like auto-play music is usually a UX nightmare anyway) will trigger an event and all but eliminate and bounces.

That being said, if you don’t have an auto-play video but do have (for example) an article with a link to another site and that link is an event, then those who leave because of the link won’t be bounces. Which is true and therefore a positive impact on the analytics.

For reasons I can’t explain I’ve never really gotten into Events – until the last couple months. I can only say I wish I did so sooner. Even if you just event off site links it’s worth it for increasing the accuracy of the bounce rate.

With that said, I have to get back to the jQuery plugin I’m writing to make Event’ing links easier. I’ll worry about video plays and such later.

I have a video on vzaar that us linked from my website. Can I track the video via these instructions. I understand you can see how many times, viewed, how far into it did a person watch, etc.. etc..

Thanks
M

I need to invent a warp system to get more time for this blog. Client time is prioritized right now. I want to redesign it and build it HTML5 ready as well… hmm… all these dreams.

Once again. Thank you for the update I’ve put it on the list of things to do!

Cheers,
Jesper

WordPress removed my php tags in my comment so what I was trying to say is that you have php code on your tracking that’s not rendered by the server.

You should check your tracking on your SM buttons here in the right column, in the “Find Me” section.

Code:
pageTracker._trackEvent(‘FindMe’, ‘LinkedIn’, ”);

Thanks for your reply.

I did test it out with the straight forward

onClick=”pageTracker._trackEvent(‘category’, ‘action’, ‘optional label’);”

protocol, and it worked wonders, so I’ll stick with that.

Best,

Anders.