For many actions on the page, tracking should not be treated like a page view. In this video, you will learn how to code a link tracking beacon to Analytics, if you are not using a tag manager (like Adobe Experience Platform Launch). See the code, as well as learning an important tip.
There are two functions that send data into Adobe Analytics:
In this video, we show you how to code a custom link hit when you are NOT using a tag manager like Adobe Experience Platform Launch. We recommend that you use Experience Platform Launch, our best-practice recommendation for implementation. However, if you need to code in an s.tl()
, here’s how to do it.
Here is the sample code used on the custom link in the video:
<a href="#" onclick="
s.linkTrackVars='events,eVar2,prop2';
s.linkTrackEvents=s.events='event2';
s.eVar2='facebook share';
s.prop2='facebook share';
s.tl(this,'o','Social Share');
s.manageVars('clearVars',s.linkTrackVars,1);">
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</a>