My issue is as follow:I'm trying to count the number of clicks on ads in our newsletter. The thing is I can't include js in emails - it's understandable. So I found a way around this by writing this small piece of code:\[code\]<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.factmag.com/wp-content/themes/modularity_/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> function getUrlVars() { var vars = [], hash; var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&'); for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++) { hash = hashes.split('='); if($.inArray(hash[0], vars)>-1) { vars[hash[0]]+=","+hash[1]; } else { vars.push(hash[0]); vars[hash[0]] = hash[1]; } } return vars; } function redirect() { var link = getUrlVars()["page_url"]; setTimeout('document.location = "' + link + '"', 100) }</script><body onload="javascript:redirect();"></body><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-4340871-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3879530/('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();</script>\[/code\]It's hosted on our servers and in the newsletter the ad code has the following format:\[code\]<a href="http://www.example.com/example_ad_counter/?utm_source=banner6&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=banner&page_url=ad_url"><img src="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3879530/ad_img_url" style="border:1px solid #000;"></a>\[/code\]So what I want to do here:[*]User clicks on ad in the email.[*]He goes to the page with this script.[*]Google Analytics counts the number it needs in order to track it.[*]Script redirects user to the advertiser's page.Now here's the deal - google analytics is not doing the count here. My guess is that I need to add something in google js in order to do so but have no clue what. Could someone help me with this one? Thanks.
Trying to track number of clicks in user's emails
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