How To Track Twitter Traffic In Google Analytics?

mrdigydigy · Oct 9, 2009

HI

I always share my blog post to my twitter profile. To track i always create shorten url & i easily get 10-20 RT for my each post & around 200-300 Clicks.

When it comes to Google Analytics it only shows me 5-10 clicks. What i should do to track twitter traffic to my Google Analytic account.

Your views will be appreciated

Thanks

nirose · Oct 9, 2009

you have to try "WP To Twitter" plugin if you are using WP which automatically posts your post to twitter.

And you have a option to choose your own url shorteners like bit.ly there you will need a bit.ly API code to get it working.

Then bit.ly will track all the clicks from the dashboard. You will be able to track countries from whre clicks come too.

TheHockeyGod · Oct 9, 2009

If you're looking for "referers" from twitter, you're not going to get the full picture.

Most people use twitter dashboards like tweetdeck or seesmic - thus their clicks will show up as "direct" and not have a referer.

The best option is to use a URL shortener that allows you to see stats. I use tiny.tw since putting /stats at the end of any URL lets me see the stats.

Alex Brooks · Oct 9, 2009

Google analystics has never tracked the traffic I've been getting from Twitter, but StatPress has been, I run both so I know how much traffic I am really getting and how much google sees as traffic.

FerreeMoney · Oct 10, 2009

nirose said:
you have to try "WP To Twitter" plugin if you are using WP which automatically posts your post to twitter.

And you have a option to choose your own url shorteners like bit.ly there you will need a bit.ly API code to get it working.

Then bit.ly will track all the clicks from the dashboard. You will be able to track countries from whre clicks come too.

If I use the "WP to Twitter" are you saying ONLY my WP posts will go to Twitter?

I use Bit.ly sidebar to push content to Twitter & Facebook and since I use Firefox, Bitly shows me the # of clicks but NOT where the clicks came from unless I got to Bitly and drill down on each shortened URL.

newuser · Oct 12, 2009

HI all

It is easy to track twitter traffic from shorten url's but you can try Google Analytic as well yo Track http://www.websudasa.com/blog/2009/09/how-to-track-twitter-traffic-in-google-analytics/

This post can help you to know more about how you can use Google Analytics to track twitter traffic.

Thanks

mrdigydigy · Oct 12, 2009

Thanks..for your reply..let me go through with all your suggestions....

galus · Oct 16, 2009

Maybe this can help u

Code:

http://getclicky.com/help/integrate

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