We just started an advertisement with Facebook and are curious if there is a way to track who has visited our website by clicking our website link on our Facebook page? I am very pleased with all of the ways to track the performance of our ad on Facebook and want to see if people are not only 'liking' our page, but visiting our website to learn more about us. Any information would be helpful :)
This is our website if you need to look into it further:
http://drkennethlevine.webs.com/
I don't know how much you can change about your website or how it is built. However there is a way to track where the users who visited your page from. Use the http reffer field.
In php (and probably in most other languages) you can get the refer link by using
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
The refer field contains the last page visited by the user.
Simply count the number of users that are surfing from your facebook page to your website.
You can use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; as mentioned by #fake, or simply use Google Analytics, which will provide you a lot of statistics for free, including referers, stats by browsers, countries...
All you have to do is create a GA account, and link your website to your account (you'll have a few javascript lines to add in your footer for it)
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I have done some research, looking for the right answer, but nothing was specific. First of all, I saw sites on how to create a cookie, but it was not clear how it would be useful for me.
Recently, I was buying a gift for someone and went to a clothing store online. I purchased some items, no when I go to Facebook, for example, I see that clothing stores ads. I assume there was a cookie put on my computer, in my temp folder, and then Facebook knows to show that ad.
I want to do something similar, but with Google Adwords. When people go to my website, I want to add a cookie to the user's computer so that when they see Google ads, either through the Display Network or in the Search Network, my Google Ad will come up because they had already shown an interest in my product/service by coming to my site.
This is obviously possible with Facebook ads, but can I do it with Google Ads? I would like to know how to do this. Any details or step-by-step resources would be greatly appreciated.
You can do this with remarketing: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2453998?hl=en
I am trying to find out how active are the users of my web page after registration, based on what was the source/landing page of their first visit. I would rather not try to track users myself - I am already employing Google Analytics on my web page and I know it uses the __utma cookie to tell one user from another. I can see summarized landing pages/sources in my Analytics reports but would need to have this data per specific user in the time of their sign up.
Essentially, when the user signs up with my web page I would like to retrieve their landing page and source from Google Analytics and store it in my application's database along with user's name, password, activity etc. This way I could check later, for example whether users who came from Google were more prone to buying premium service that those who came from Facebook etc.
I checked the Google Analytics API reference but it doesn't seem to provide getters for this specific data. I've been looking in up in Google and in Stack Overflow for a while.
This seems like a pretty useful functionality, which many websites should need. What am I missing? Maybe I should seek for a solution that doesn't involve GA? Or switch to a different analytics? Or track user's landing pages with cookies myself?
So I would think this would be an easy thing to do, but I'm completely lost right now. I have a website. It has a facebook page. That fb page has a bunch of likes and all is good. We also have the "like" button on various webpages throughout our website. If I go to those webpages individually, I can see how many people have hit the like button, but I have not found any where to see some reports. Ideally, I'd like to see:
The most popular (liked) webpages on our website
The total number of interactions (likes) across my domain
The same basic demographic information that is available for our fb page
We have had the like button integrated for a few months now, but I'm not sure if it should be linked to our fb page or if I have to create a custom app to associate it with. Right now we have it assigned to our fb page.
Is this possible?
It's possible, but requires a few steps:
Claim insights for your domain: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/insights/#claiming_a_domain
Grab your domain ID: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/domain/
Access insights using the graph API
I'm doing a job for Company A. I've just built their website in Django but now they want to add a social photo management aspect to the site (in that other people can upload).
The only way I know of doing this (having done it before) is through Flickr. You can set up a group and have it so anybody can add photos to it. And pull out the latest with RSS. But let's be honest, Facebook is far more popular and my client wants this feature heavily used by his clientèle.
They have a Facebook page and the power to open it up so anybody can add their photos to it... But how can I pull those photos back to the website?
Facebook's query language can do this (like the RSS sends data to you from Flickr) for users of FB pages, and there are some Javascripts for making them viewable and interactive on external web pages.
For example:
http://www.codeofaninja.com/2011/06/display-facebook-photos-to-your-website.html
http://www.alexanderinteractive.com/blog/2012/03/display-facebook-photos-on-your-website-with-galleria/
Good luck!
Terry
I'm not sure if this will help, but I recall that the Flock Web Browser had the capability of loading a stream of new videos/photos on the top of the brower's media stream bar - perhaps you can sneak a peek into the inner workings it uses to accomplish this task.
I know that you can start reading the RSS feed of a Facebook Page itself now, perhaps just a little parsing is all you need: http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-pages-rss-2010-01
I recently put a django project of mine into its beta stages and would really like to integrate more with social media, particularly facebook.
Now there are so many facebook integrations out there... I don't know where to start but, I'll tell you what I am after.
My sites publishes content with photos and also user related data (which site doesn't)
on each individual page I already have a facebook like button that basically has the absolute url of that page
so for instance:
http://my-site.com/url-1
http://my-site.com/url-345345
http://my-site.com/url-456456456
When a user likes this particular url I would like them to become a Fan on my facebook site/page as well.
I also added the FB opengraph tool which is a bit more informative once a user likes it. But it still does not publish any statistics to my page.
Can someone give me a bit of an understanding on what the best option is for this type of integration?
As a security option for the user, Facebook has never allowed third party access to "become a fan."
If you want to record locally when someone presses the "Like" button, you'll have to implement it locally (copy the presentation, and query Facebook yourself), so you can intercept the event. I've done that; it's not too hard.
I suggest you review the Connect Terms of Service to see what it is you're allowed to do: http://developers.facebook.com/policy/