I'm interested in tracking the outbound links through google analytics and I was wondering what would be the best way to make it so that the links are automatically configure to that format.

 

The links would have to be configured this way:

<a href="http://www.example.com" onClick= pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/example.com');">

Gaudicia,

You can accomplish that by using Unobtrusive JavaScript, library like jQuery.com will do that for you.

 

 

This will affect all link in your document:

    $(document).ready(function() {
       $('a').onclick(function() {
               pageTracker._trackPageview(  $(this).attr("href")  ) ;
        return false;
        });
      
     });

 

 

This will affect only links in the <DIV id="content"> in your document:

    $(document).ready(function() {
       $('#content a').onclick(function() {
               pageTracker._trackPageview(  $(this).attr("href")  ) ;
        return false;
        });
      
     });

Enjoy!

This will affect all the links even the links that direct to other pages of my website?  Because I only want it to affect links to other websites.

 

And thank you, I will experiment with the code!

 

 

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.2.3.js"></script>

 

 

 

2- To  link ONLY to an external site, we have to check the presence of the string http:// at the beginning of the value of the link’s href attribute. We could select links with an href value starting with http:// with the following code in your header:

<script>