Social Interaction Tracking in Google Analytics

cafe_carl

Since a few days now the Google + button is being tracked and shown in our Google Analytics account, which you can find here . There is also a solution to track Twitter, Facebook, ... but can't seem to get it to work, which you can find here . Except putting the JavaScript Source Code in the header, do we need to do something else as well?

Originally asked by Paul Olyslager on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The Like button in your website header seems to be tracking correctly. The following _utm.gif request is being made: http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif? utmwv=5.1.1&utms=3&utmn=902823811&utmhn=www.paulolyslager.com &utmt=social&utmsn=facebook&utmsa=like &utmsid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages... The links in the social bar on the left-side of each post will not be tracked, because the social actions script is designed to hook into specific events raised by Twitter and Facebook. These events are not called by the share actions in he social bar. Edit: the Like buttons for each post on the homepage are working also. Is this issue resolved? Update: The Social Bar to the left of...

Full answer by Ciaran: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/17418 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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