| Period | front-page | business-card | tour-top-tab | N/A | businesscard | tour-top-tabhelp | tour-top-tabsign_in | tour-top-tabterms | tour-top-tabtour/start | tour-top-tabtour/tags | tour-top-tabusers/new | booktrakr | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2649 | 909 | 893 | 118 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4580 |
A tracking tag lets you add information to a hit about where the visitor came from. For example, the "Take The Tour" button on the home page has a source=front-page tag on it. Here are the hits on the tour link, shown by source tags:
| Period | front-page | business-card | tour-top-tab | N/A | businesscard | tour-top-tabhelp | tour-top-tabsign_in | tour-top-tabterms | tour-top-tabtour/start | tour-top-tabtour/tags | tour-top-tabusers/new | booktrakr | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2649 | 909 | 893 | 118 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4580 |
Tags help you figure out where to focus your efforts. Do you get more traffic through Twitter or Facebook? From the front of an e-book or the back? If your links are properly tagged, you can tell.