Social media tracking via Google Analytics

Want to know when a visitor to your website uses your social media links? Then you can easily measure this via the integrated social media tracking on your Ziber website. This works for all Ziber website!

Conditions to use this

To be able to use this function, there are two conditions. You will have to place the social media icons (preferably in the footer of your website) on a page and you will have to have Google analytics activated for your Ziber website. Explanation to do these two steps can be found here:

1. Activate Google analytics: https://support.ziber.nl/hc/nl/articles/214500085-Google-Analytics-integration
2. Place social media icons (preferably in the footer page): https://support.ziber.nl/hc/nl/articles/213979009-Social-media-iconen-op-de-pagina-tonen

Social media tracking

If you want to keep track of when visitors on your website click on one of your social media buttons (Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter), this is easy to achieve. This happens automatically if you have fulfilled the two conditions above.

When you look in the html of your website, you would see at the height of the social media icons in the HTML, you can also see that a signal is passed to Google for the tracking of these buttons:



When you log in to your Google Analytics account, you can find the social media tracking in the reports under 'Acquisition > Social > Plug-ins'.