The "Page Post: Engagement" metrics mention that they report the number of times people "click anywhere" in your posts, which leaves me wondering if this means the number of times links in your posts are clicked on, or does it also track the number of times any click is registered on any white space, image, text, etc. within a post?
Essentially: how is engagement through clicking "anywhere" defined by Facebook?
For reference: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/#post_engagement
It means any link included in your page post. Any link inside your post, opening a photo, ... Or any "meta" link generated by Facebook and included in your post: "Like", "Share", "Report", ...
Basically: anything that can be clicked in your post and that will lead to an action.
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Question: I'm trying to get all my posts in one scroll. It was working until recently by increasing "Max posts shown on main page" in Posts under settings to over 100. However, it is now cutting off at around 25, despite updating the max posts. Ive tried adding the various html codes to the edit html, but nothing works. Is there a pushbutton way to do this? Or at least include an "older posts" at the bottom? Classic view seems very limited, and at present, it will not even display a link to access my oldests posts. Thanks in advance, Chris
I have been sent an example of a mailchimp HTML email which allows users to re-express their wish to stay on a mailing list. It just contains a brief message and one big button "Opt In" which users simply have to click once. The code of the button is as follows:
<img src=3D"https://somewebsite.us6.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=3D=e57uw79a33&id=3Dhs7de4d771&e=3D936b9800f2" height=3D"1" width=3D"1">
(Obviously I've changed the URL and ID parameters for security). I'm trying to work out how the sender has done this. I'm not clear whether the result of hitting this button moves the subscriber onto a new list, flags them in some way, or removes subscribers that haven't clicked the button after some time limit- but any of those would suit our needs.
After a long time searching the net and options within Mailchimp, I still can't work out how to do this?
The most relevant article I can find about "Reconfirming a list" is this, but it seems a very roundabout way of doing it, plus the example email I have received appears to have been sent with Mailchimp which goes against what the article says, PLUS the article's instructions is to provide a link to a signup form rather than an embedded one-click button within the email itself, which is what I want.
A way to track the reconfirmations of your mailing within mailchimp:
Create a new campaign for your old list. Add a button 'Yes I want to continue to be on this list' and 'No thanks, remove me from the list'. The buttons should point to two different urls that undisputedly match the intent (e.g. example.com/stay-on-list or example.com/unsubscribe); prepare them on your website with whatever message you want to give them.
Send the mail; Mailchimp will track the links clicked for every user (this is by default, check your settings if you might have changed this) (this is actually why I hate to be on mailchimp, but for today it's convenient).
Wait a few days (or just before you want to send your next mailing)
Go to 'Reports' and click on your latest campaign
Click on the numbers clicked link and then do for the 'continue' link: Download the list as CSV; upload this CSV to a new list which is now 'cleaned'
For the 'unsubscribe' button; download the list, open it in your spreadsheet program (Excel, LO Sheet), grab the e-mailadresses and unsubscribe them manually from old list.
You now have two lists: one cleaned with properly confirmed addresses and one with members you're not sure of. You could try again with your next mailing but at a certain point you probably have to discard your old list (actually, EU-focussed organizations already should've already discarded these lists, but if you're a small org you might get away with it (AT YOUR OWN RISK: THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVISE)).
But you may want some additional proof, because you don't have a list of who clicked what when. The risk is that someone someday might dispute his or her intent to be subscribed to your list. And the user dump you made from people who clicked on a link isn't really giving you much information that you can use and say, well at that day you did click on Subscribe. To the rescue is the MailChimp data dump (Click Username > Account > Settings > Manage my data), which actually gives you quite a simple table of timestamps, links and emailadresses. Will this hold in court? I really don't have a clue, it is easy to fake (it would've been better with ip-addresses etc), but at least it gives you some track record. Note that the data in mailchimp itself is not hard to fake, but maybe one day this data is gone, hence keep the MailChimp data dump.
(btw. before you do all this, maybe clean up your list beforehand: https://mailchimp.com/help/remove-inactive-subscribers/)
Actually, I quit mailchimp in favor of MailingBoss, but I believe AWeber also does this... they have what's called a "capture email" that is unique to each list... if you connect a button to it by using "mailto" link ... then it opens the users default email client and pre-populates their main email in it. Once they send that email to your capture email, it ads their email to your list. Pretty sweet stuff for mobile users.
Here's a vid on it
I couldn't figure out how to achieve this with MailChimp ...but in regards to the technique you want to use, after reading the MailChimp documentation I believe that the person likely achieved it by simply using segmentation... anyone that clicked the button was segmented and then perhaps only that segment was sent their follow up emails or maybe even the the segment that didn't click the link was manually unsubscribed on the back end...
I'm searching for Wordpress plugins to achieve the following scenario.
User A clicks "Add new Restaurant" and fills out the form and submits Restaurant "ACME Food"
Admin in /wp-admin/ opens up the queue and approves "ACME Food" (Version/Revision 1)
User B clicks "Edit ACME Food" and edits the address (custom field).
User gets a feedback message that the update has been received and is Pending
/Wordpress system/ Keeps the "ACME Food" (Version/Revision 1) Published and adds a copy as "ACME Food" (Version/Revision 2) to the queue.
Admin aprooves the "ACME Food" (Version/Revision 2) and it replaces the Version/Revision 1
In addition, I'm looking for Image upload of the foods in that particular Restaurant. So any user can upload their image of the food at ACME Food, which is again added to the queue.
User A and B both may or may not be signed up (I don't want to force them to sign-up).
You could do something along the lines of what you want (but not exactly) with Gravity Forms. It's a paid plugin but well worth it with good support IMO.
I used GF's Post Fields on this site to create a form to allow the public to upload a photo and some text to the website. A draft post is created and the uploaded image is attached. Notification emails are sent. Admins then approve the image (basically to make sure no one's submitted a photo of a dick) and set it to publish.
The following is from the Gravity forms website:
Post Fields are form fields that enable you to capture data that is
then used to create a WordPress Post. These fields make it quick and
easy for you to create forms that allow users to submit content to
your site. The result posts will be set as a Draft and will need to be
published before they are visible.
Post Title
Post Body
Post Excerpt
Post Tags
Post Category
Post Image
Post Custom Field
That's about as close as I can think of as far as a plugin solution goes.
Alternatively...
...you could look at the wp_insert_post function. Here's an example usage from S.O. I haven't tested this code, but from my experience with wp_insert_post it looks about right.
I'm trying to track how visitors interact with the price calculator that i placed on my website.
I've tried placing events and virtual pageviews in different places and events (onClick, onMouseDown, onMouseOver, in href attribute, onChange in the input tag). No matter what i do - no events or virtual pageviews are tracked, though i can see the __utm.gif requests for everything i want to track in FireBug, but nothing in GA reports.
Here's the calculator i'm tracking (it's in Russian, the event i'm trying to track is the big orange button).
Firstly, I do see a _trackPageview() call passing "/virtual/trees/calculate" on various onmouseover,onchange, and onclicks, and at face value I see no reason you shouldn't be seeing "/virtual/trees/calculate" show up in your pages report, but google officially states that it takes up to 24 hours to see data.
Second, I do not see any event tracking on your page. I do not see any code for it, nor do I see any GA calls showing it from random interactions on your page. If it is there, you will need to give detail about where it is and how it is coded.
Third, do you see the page view for the actual page? Which account/profile are you looking at? Because when I first load the page, I see two separate hits to GA happening, the first to account/profile # "UA-25026876-1" (which is from your on-page code) and the second to account/profile # "UA-20200270-1" (which is happening from a counter.js script include), and the second one is where your virtual page views are going to.
I have a page that shows the main product for that page, next to it though are "related products" which when you click on them you go to their page, and they have their own related products as well. The problem is that the related products are getting indexed by Google so when you search for product-A you may get the product-B page where product-A is a related item, instead of just getting the product-A page. I am trying to prevent this. Any ideas?
Thanks!
You can add rel="nofollow" in any links you don't want a bot to crawl. In this case, you can apply that tag to all your links and google won't follow them off your main page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
EDIT for clarification:
Page "A" is for widgets. You want this page to be returned for searches regarding widgets; on this page is a "related searches" section which links to Other Widgets. On all the anchor tags on page "A" which link to pages "B" and "C" (the related searches for Other Widgets), you'll put a rel="nofollow" tag. This will prevent Google from hitting page A and then following your "related searches" links off to pages "B" and "C".
This will NOT prevent pages "B" and "C" from being indexed on their own, it just prevents them from getting pulled in from page "A".
EDIT#2:
rel="nofollow" tells bots you don't want them to follow the link to the second page. Regardless of the anchor text on a link from A->B, if you've nofollowed it the bot won't "flow" pagerank to the linked-to page and should not follow the link to page "B" to index it due to that tag on the anchor. Note that this is not foolproof: Yahoo and other SE's may not treat nofollow like Google....so your best bet is to make sure that each page is strongly on-page-SEO'd such that it gets included in the index for the term you want it to be included for. Hope this helps...but like much of the SEO world there are few hard-and-fast rules which apply universally.
yes... put them at the bottom of the page for content,
if you want that to appear visually at the top of the page, use a css layout to re-arrange the page elements
also, as darksquid already said, add rel="nofollow" to links you don't want considered
another tip (pertaining to your comment on darksquid's post):
You could load the content via ajax, which would keep most search engine spiders from seeing it at all (since they don't generally execute javascript)
Use Google Applicance - googleoff / googleon Tags:
http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/ViewC8614968-56ED-4729-9C12-F01677DAC412.htm