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The best approach here is to let the data speak by adding some custom parameters to the landing pages and then creating a custom report. The metric we will use to measure the effectiveness of the landing page will be conversions (or conversion %). This is the number of product downloads divided by the total number of visits to the associated landing page. To capture this data we will need two parameters, one to track the loading of the landing page (WT.z_pdp, pdp is short for product download page) and the other to track the clicking of the download button (WT.z_convert). | The best approach here is to let the data speak by adding some custom parameters to the landing pages and then creating a custom report. The metric we will use to measure the effectiveness of the landing page will be conversions (or conversion %). This is the number of product downloads divided by the total number of visits to the associated landing page. To capture this data we will need two parameters, one to track the loading of the landing page (WT.z_pdp, pdp is short for product download page) and the other to track the clicking of the download button (WT.z_convert). | ||
To track the loading landing please add the following meta tag to the header of your page that contains the download link: | To track the loading landing please add the following meta tag to the header of your page that contains the download link (Note: If multiple products are available for download please use a semi-colon delimited list): | ||
<code><meta name="WT.z_pdp" content="<see below>"> </code> | <code><meta name="WT.z_pdp" content="<see below>"> </code> | ||
then in the onclick event handler of the download button please add the following dcsMultiTrack call: | then in the onclick event handler of the download button please add the following dcsMultiTrack call: | ||
<code> dcsMultiTrack('DCS.dcssip',document.location.host,<br> 'DCS.dcsuri',document.location.pathname,<br> 'WT.ti',document.title,<br> 'WT.dl',99,<br> 'WT.z_convert','< | <code> dcsMultiTrack('DCS.dcssip',document.location.host,<br> 'DCS.dcsuri',document.location.pathname,<br> 'WT.ti',document.title,<br> 'WT.dl',99,<br> 'WT.z_convert','<see below>') </code> | ||
Once the page and appropriate buttons have been tagged a custom report can be created to track the conversion rate and other metrics. More on that later. | Once the page and appropriate buttons have been tagged a custom report can be created to track the conversion rate and other metrics. More on that later. | ||