Question

I’m trying to get both a _trackEvent push command and a _link to another domain command to work on a single quote button on my site, but am currently coming up with noting.

Here’s the code:

<a href="URL"
target="_blank" 
onclick="
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Quotes', 'Click', 'QuoteImage']);
_gaq.push(['_link', 'URL']);
return false;
">button</a>

If I remove the _link push event from the code, the _trackEvent works, but I’m unable to get both to work at the same time. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You should read this doc : http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1136920

Try something like :

<a href="URL" onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Quotes', 'Click', 'QuoteImage');return false;">

and

function recordOutboundLink(link, category, action, opt_label) {
try {
var myTracker=_gat._getTrackerByName();
_gaq.push(['myTracker._trackEvent', category , action, opt_label ]);
_gaq.push(['_link', link.href]);
}catch(err){}
}