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Tracking People Clicking In

Hi,

I have built a small wordpress widget that floats in the bottom right hand corner of my client's website(s), so that their users can click it to make a payment to them... which simply redirects the user to my payment platform / website where my customer has an account.

FLOW - widget sits on clientwebsite.com and when they click it, the customer is brought to mysplink.com/abc (their payment profile on splink)

QUESTION
I need to be able to track how many users land on mysplink.com from a widget that sits on another site.

I was thinking of using something like mysplink.com/abc/ref=widget-abc and then i can view that in Google Analytics?

01 - would this approach be the best way to do this?

02 - any other advice on approaches would be greatly appreciated

Thank you in advance for your help.

David Favor

Or you can just look at the referent (where click originated) which will give same info, without rewriting all your URLs.

In GA + GTM there's also a way to... collapse multiple urls together, based on query parameters.

For example, let's say you use mysplink.com?widget=id&arg1=foo&arg2=foo as your link format.

In GA + GTM you can collapse all mysplink.com?widget=id links together, so your metrics give numbers on a widget ID basis, rather than split up by unique query parameters.

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