Track the Click

If you have a website with external links how do you know how effective they have been at driving traffic to that site, be it an e-commerce site, a companion website, technical content or  blog article?

The answer is a WordPress plugin called Track the Click. It’s free and will log all the traffic that resulted from a visitor clicking on an external link on your website.

The basic functions of the plugin include:

• Unlimited link click tracking
• Local tracking and reporting of clicks
• No limit on storage of link click data
• Real time forwarding of link clicks to Google Analytics for tracking and reporting
• Track outbound link clicks in all areas of your site: header, body, widgets and footer
• Two standard views

You can download the plugin from the WordPress repository here