Analytics conversion event tracking

Resolved Gal Baras
(@galbaras)

8 years, 12 months ago

I have 3 popups: one with a link to a product page, one with a MailPoet subscription form and one with a Contact Form 7 form. In Google Analytics, I only see conversions for the popup with the link, but I know for a fact that the other forms are converting too.

To me, any action taken on a popup that isn’t a “close” should be viewed as a conversion. This is because the contents of the popup can be safely assumed to contain a single desired action, which navigates to some other page.

So the best approach would be to trigger a conversion event whenever any link or any button is clicked in the popup, and even when the popup is “unloaded” for any reason that isn’t a “close” (clicking the “close” handle or outside the popup).

Alternatively, is there a way to trigger a conversion event myself by attaching a JS listener to the button (and without cancelling any default action)?

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Plugin Author Damian
(@timersys)

8 years, 12 months ago

Hi Gal,
that’s the way it works by default. Any action not considered a close it’s a conversion, Even if you paste a link to google and the user clicks on it, that will be a conversion.
So those forms should be working, if you want send me a link where I check to see If I spot anything.

Reegarding js function you have SPU.hide( popup_id, show, conversion) , so on this case you need to call it like SPU.hide( 123, false, true)

Thread Starter Gal Baras
(@galbaras)

8 years, 12 months ago

First, I’ve gone further back and realised that the Contact Form 7 popup has registered conversions. I haven’t had them since, so I’m going to assume this works.

2 out of 3 🙂

When you scroll to the bottom of the content on https://www.ronitbaras.com/family-matters/parenting-family/can-change-life/, you should get a subscription popup, which users a MailPoet form.

In the past month, Analytics captured 4,521 impressions of this popup and 27 goal completions for Subscription Confirmation, but no popup conversion events. I can see 29 events (26 unique) with the event label “(not set)” and the event category “outbound-link”, which may or may not be related.

I use Monster Insights Pro on this site, with tracking of outbound links, if this makes any difference, but you can see all of that on the page itself, I’m sure.

Plugin Author Damian
(@timersys)

8 years, 12 months ago

Yes you will to attach a listener manually or add in the thanks page the code to track the conversion.

Thread Starter Gal Baras
(@galbaras)

8 years, 12 months ago

Hey Damian,

I was hoping for something a bit more specific, since you’ve had a chance to look at my page. There may be something there that’s preventing your code from working, and I was hoping you could find it, because I’m not sure where your code is.

Thanks again,
Gal

Plugin Author Damian
(@timersys)

8 years, 12 months ago

Hi Gal, Mailpoet don’t have a way for me to detect that the form is submited. If you want to track it automatically you need to use the optin integration of the premium version will use mailpoet api.
If instead you want to place the mailpoet form all you can do is place on the tahnk you page the code for tracking. So every time the user is redirected to that page it will track one conversion
You can do that by placing this code that I commented earlier:
<script>SPU.hide( 123, false, true)</script>

Thread Starter Gal Baras
(@galbaras)

8 years, 12 months ago

So the SPU.hide code goes on the Thank You page?

What code does the plugin execute when link is clicked? I can attach it to the form myself.

Plugin Author Damian
(@timersys)

8 years, 11 months ago

That same code is executed.
SPU.hide( 123, false, true);

Thread Starter Gal Baras
(@galbaras)

8 years, 11 months ago

Thank you. I think I got it.

I was actually using e.preventDefault on this (oops), because I wanted to avoid the default MailPoet actions on submit, and triggering the “hide” function went missing, but now it’s back. Yay!

Thread Starter Gal Baras
(@galbaras)

8 years, 11 months ago

2 days later…

Still not working, @timersys. Analytics shows 5 visits to the thank you page and only impressions for the popup, no conversions.

Would you mind looking at my page again? Please?
Plugin Author Damian
(@timersys)

8 years, 11 months ago
Hi Gal, I gave the code to close and not to track. Try the following:
```
jQuery('form.widget_wysija').submit(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
setTimeout(function(){
var msg=jQuery('.wysija-msg');
if(msg.text()!==''){
SPU.hide(14341, false, true);
SPU.track(14341, true);
window.location.replace('https://www.ronitbaras.com/thank-you-subscribe');
}},3000);
});
```
Thread Starter Gal Baras
(@galbaras)

8 years, 11 months ago

I should have know that, actually. I had this in my code for another popup. Thank you for catching it.

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