Comments on: How to Track RSS Subscribers using Meta Refresh in Google Analytics

By: Ian Mikutel

Ian Mikutel — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:30:04 +0000

Brian,

Where’s the post about doing this with onclick event? Look forward to seeing it soon, as I’m trying to implement this on my blog.

By: aj

aj — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:27:49 +0000

It seems like it should work with, at least, the javascript if I put the location.replace in the body tag using onload=”location.replace(myURL)”. Because then the page has to actually load before the forwarding url get executed. However, I’m not sure if the Google tracking scripts execute in this circumstance.

Does anyone out there know?

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:14:55 +0000

that is a good question, I am not enough of a code buff to answer one way or the other. I am not exactly sure.

However, I am about to make a post on how to do this with the onclick event which IMO is much better way to attack this issue and might resolve your question.

By: aj

aj — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:27:05 +0000

will this only work with

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By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:39:05 +0000

I setup up outbound click tracking to track outgoing clicks on the rss links. See here: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55527

Very easy to setup and no redirect to worry about.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:46:19 +0000

This is still really cool! Nice post!

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:29:42 +0000

@ Dan Google actually owns feedburner, heh. As of last year

By: Dan Russell

Dan Russell — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:16:20 +0000

Hopefully, Google will just buy Feedburner soon and integrate those stats with Analytics.

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:31:16 +0000

@ Gab

You are exactly right, and doing so alleviates the issues Andy so kindly pointed out above.