How to set up External Links
Thanks to this procedure you will be able to know how many times your visitors click on a particular link on your web site.
A 'Link' can be a hyperlink to another site as well as a hyperlink pointing to the download of an application or a file.
By identifying the most popular links, you will be able to better manage your site. Thanks to this feature, you could on the one hand be positively surprised by discovering that visitors often click on a link that leads to the .pdf file in which your product is described; on the other hand you could also discover that the link that they click on mostly is the one that leads to another site so that visitors abandon your pages even before having checked out their content.
The analysis of the external links is extremely useful in order to check how many requests actually lead visitors to a partner site or to know the number of clicks made by visitors on a particular advertising banner on your site.
To measure every single external link, follow this procedure:
- Login
- Click on "Account Management" in the menu on the left, then on "Settings"
- Click on "Features" in the menu on the left
- Click on "External Link" and follow the procedure described
- Step 1 - Specify the Destination URL of the link
- Step 2 - Insert the special tracking URL into the link
Notice: To use the service, the ShinyStat HTML code must be present on the web page containing the link.