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Tracking Hashtags & Querystrings in GA


I have a few stickers which contain my website's URL QR Code (like this : http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=5&d=http%3A%2F%2Fissocial.net%23qr) . I will stick it to streets. As you can see if someone read this QR code, he will forward to http://issocial.net/#qr page.

Now i want to track people who reach my site via this QR Code Stickers. Sadly, Google Analytics isn't tracking hashtags.

Maybe i can do it with querystring (like : http://issocial.net/?qr=true) . But GA isn't tracking just one querystring.

So, have you any idea about this?


Solution

  • You can use a combination of _setAllowAnchor and _setCampMediumKey to force Google Analytics to (a) use your hash tag as a query string and (b) use your 'qr' in place of the normal utm _medium (or any other of the campaign variables).

    More here : http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiCampaignTracking.html