Using .htaccess to redirect my affiliate link and track in Google Analytics

kernel_kate

Helo all, I'm a novice affiliate marketer, but I'm already making web hosting sales by placing my affiliate link in a number of places. I'd like to do the following: Mask my affiliate link using my main domain name i.e. www.mydomain.com/affiliate-link Track the re-direct using Google Analytics. I've tried creating the directory "affiliate-link" on my server with the following .htaccess code: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$...

Originally asked by Sam on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

You are sending traffic to my.affiliate-link.com, so it will show up in the analytics for that website. You are exiting when you click on www.mydomain.com/affiliate-link, so analytics will not get a chance to fire again. Your affiliate will get the source details added at their end. You would be better off getting a GA expert to answer this, but you would be best to track clicks with event tracking code, I assume.

Full answer by Lucas: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/14639212 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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