Tracking click conversions with Google Analytics

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Published on 2011-01-09T10:16:59Z Indexed on 2011/01/09 10:59 UTC
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Is there anyway I can use Google Analytics to track click conversions on a link?

For example, if I have a link to www.a.com , is it possible for google to track the number of times that particular link was shown on my page and then track how many times it was really clicked? The problem is that I do not show the link to www.a.com every time the page loads. I am using a random function (server side) to generate a different link everytime. I would like Google Analytics to provide me with the click conversion for each of the links I choose to show the user.

Thanks,

Joel

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