Google Analytics for Facebook Fan Pages

Simply Amazing! I am sure that adding an image tag is simple and allowed by all sites. So this workaround should help with all similar sites that do not allow javascript too. Not only facebook fan pages!

Awesome, just downloaded and setup on the server and it looks ok so far. Waiting for google analytics to update.

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Hi Guys,

Nice work here. A few questions though. On Facebook images called up from within a Fanpage Tab view are cached by Facebook. So without some sort of cache breaker (a time on the image src url will do it) your image is only going to be called the first time. No big problem there.

The real problem is that it’s not technically the end user who is loading your image. So you’re not getting any real data about that user including their browser settings etc. Nor could you do any type of cookie management during the image load.

It doesn’t look like this solves the latter problem. I’ve been through the code and don’t see anything that would seem to take care of it. Am I missing something? Am I making bad assumptions?

@Grace, @Oliver If you use the advanced option of hosting the code by yourself, you will be able to track visits from your website to your fan page and back. Also preserving the original referrer to your website, etc. It might also be better than relying on our servers.

@Patrick Also, to clarify, the images generated from the server is loaded by the actual user and not Facebook. Also static FBML cannot be changed for time, etc easily as Javascript onload is blocked

On our Google Analytics we are able to see which device was used (Iphone, Android, Firefox, etc). We are able to see the location, track usage with cookies, time on pages, track visits after some time, etc. This complements Facebook Insights well. Also note that the page created using StaticFBML is static and the URL cannot be changed all the time. Let me know if you have any ideas and please do share code improvements that you make.

Wow! This is excellent stuff! Thanks for sharing!

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Probably an elementary question, but “Add the entire custom image html tag from step 2 to the bottom of each Facebook fan page” — where exactly do I put the html tag? Thank you!

Awesome post. Thanks for sharing these knowledge bits.

Some newbie questions. I have completed two steps. First created google analytics account for Facebook Fan page and received google analytics code. Second generated Image from the UI you have shared. After that I have added FBML box to my facebook fan page and have copied the image code generated. When I have checked status from Google Analytics, I am getting tracking code is not installed message. Would you please help me on this ?

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This is awesome, maybe it will work even for profile pages if you use it in some Static FBML box. But another important question – Facebook does not cache this image?

Thanks, articles like this help me remember to work on FB, which I tend to ignore as just an add in. Thanks,

Thanks for this great info. Very helpful!

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This is a really valuable info. Keep up the good work. Mary Jo

Had a play with it now. I’ve done everything that you’ve highlighted but am I right in thinking that due to having to use FBML you can only track the pages that you build yourself? How do you view who looks you at your wall/3rd party boxes which are put onto your FB page?

Please let me know if I’ve missed something!

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@rudi, yes this is why you would use facebook insights along with Google analytics. You can have the best of both worlds.

Excellent post. I was speaking on a panel last night about Google Analytics and a question came up about this exact topic…really great post here. Retweeted @aybecker

Does anyone know where you paste your google analytics code on facebook? Where do you do this? What part of the page can this code be posted to?

Thanks for the help!

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Great idea was looking for a way to track non javascript browsers like some smart phones, if I use it on the same domain can i just create a new profile/existing domain?

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Nice job i have tried it for my blog fan pages, it work really easy.

@Jake, @MLO
You can definitely track visits on your Facebook page Wall as well. You will have to create a new static FBML box and place the img tag html code in it. To see this in action, Go to our fan page wall, you will see a box on the lower left called Articles which has a Google Analytics tracking code.

After you create your new StaticFBML, go back to edit your fan page. Under Application Settings for the entry you created, you can remove tab and add a box. Once a box is added it will be displayed under the Boxes section. All you have to do is to click on the little edit icon and select “Move to Wall”.

Doing the above will place your tracking code into the wall page and you will be able to track users on your fan page wall! Its easier than I made it look. Give it a go!

Haven’t worked much with Facebook fan pages (and even less with FBML) but I’ll have to give this a try. Thanks!

Hey, I’m having problems understand this: “3) Add the entire custom image html tag from step 2 to the bottom of each Facebook fan page that you need to track.”

Where and How do I have to paste the generated code?

Thanks for this awesome tip! I must admit, I’m stumped as to why it isn’t working for us. I set up a new profile in Google Analytics, created the box and published it on our wall with the img tag from your generator. What could I be missing?

facebook.com/Vmeals

Got it up and running on the wall of a facebook fan page. I assume that since the tracking is done indirectly, the “status” on google.com/analytics/settings/home should show “tracking installed”, correct iphp?

Hi there. We are very excited to see this. We added Analytics to our page however after 14 hours we haven’t seen anything show in the Analytics. We think there may be some issue over the page name – for instance, you listed “Contact_Page”, however each of our static FBML pages have a much longer string attached. ie, our Landing Page’s string after the facebook.com is /videosocialmarketing?v=app_4949752878&ref=ts. Is this the string we add to your form? Thanks so much

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I have installed this on my server, followed the steps and added a box via Static FBML to my Wall page. But now I also have a tab on my page for the same as the box. I’d like to remove that.

Actually, what might be most helpful, would be a separate entry outlining how to get this to track your Wall visits. I think i did it right, but the procedure still feels vague (ie, I don’t know what to put into the Page Link variable, and I am not sure that I used the right thing in the Domain on Analytics var – I used facebook.com/chesterbullockphotography, which is what I entered into GA).

Can a few people go to my page so I can see in a few hours if it is working right?

facebook.com/chesterbullockphotography

Thank you.

@Meredith, don’t worry about the longer string. The strings generated for google analytics are just to help you track which pages are being visited. Give google analytics some more time also try this trick if you have not already.

For those who can’t wait for 24 hours but have waited for more than 10 hours, you might see new stats pour in. On the dashboard you can change the date range by clicking on the down arrow.

@Astrid, @Jeff, thanks and you are welcome.

@Eduardo, yes you will have to wait a while before this goes away.

@Andrea, If you want to make sure that the code you generated is correct. Just copy and paste the code within (quotes) ‘ ‘ after src= and put it on your browser. You should be redirected to google analytics and you will get a blank screen (because google image is a 1*1 pixel size. This is correct and not broken. Make sure you enter your Analytics code correctly.

I have appended this article (updates at footer) with an image showing where the code should be placed.

hi,

how do you get the proper url for your facebook fanpage.. my fan page’s url is very different…

Lovely! Thanx for sharing and insightful comments

Really useful and fresh info. Thanks!

Hey, great article. Tried it out.. Hopefully I did it right. Here’s my fan page link to to test.

facebook.com/pages/San-Mateo-CA/Beard-Papa-San-Mateo-CA/192542081720#!/pages/San-Mateo-CA/Beard-Papa-San-Mateo-CA/192542081720?v=wall

seems like a great way to get analytics! will try it out for sure.. FB insight is hardly any use

Amazing. Code implemented as directed and capturing data 15 hours later! Great work guys!

@chrisbrashear

This is great info, thanks! Do you know if the Analytics click tracker will work, even though javascript is not enabled? google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55527

just installed here. thanks for making this possible!!

facebook.com/pages/Vivo-Girls-Sports/191965328828

Thank you so much for posting this, great idea!

Thanks for the positive comments.
@Chris, @Cortez thanks for sharing with us that your tracking is working. It should encourage more folks to wait if they have setup things correctly.
@Keyur, to get a custom URL, you will need about 25 fans or more.
@Andreas, we think Facebook is going to get rid of iFrames in staticFBML at the end of the month. We wouldn’t be able to do what you are thinking of anyway as an iframe will not have access to the rest of the comments.
@Kati, Good thinking but it wouldn’t work as the script is complicated on Google Analytics. We will have to re-write the JS to FBJS.
@Tim Ware, We definitely learned a thing or two from your blog posts on HyperArts. Keep up the great work! I had a look at your fan page. It looks the server is returning the results correctly. Please give Google Analytics some time to show you the latest visits.
@coreytess, Try it

Such a simple yet powerful suggestion. Thank you very much for posting it.

Oh wow! This is awesome! Thanks for providing this valuable resource! I’m viewing my Facebook fan page stats now. Lots of peeps on Facebook Friday nites!

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This is VERY cool! We just did this in Flash a couple weeks ago and it looks like you guys are doing the same thing for FBML. Excellent work guys!

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Thanks for the code…and the long and repeated explanations !
Very useful, I was looking for this kind of tool for months

So, all implemented and waiting for the Googlers to update the stats. Just need some traffic for that, can you guys help a little please?

facebook.com/pages/Big-City-News/137362123910

Thanks

So will this track the actual people who visit my facebook profile? For instance, I would be able to see their names and the times they checked my profile? This probably sounds like a horribly obvious question, but I am not the most technically savvy individual! Thanks in advance for your answer

Hello, first of all thank you for this tutorial.

Unfortunately GA is not receiving any data from my fan page (I included the image on my “landing page” as well as on the wall). I waited well over 72h.

Can someone tell me if the code on my page seems to be correct?
facebook.com/chasse.actu

Thanks in advance.

Since I’m no developer, I may have taken the more difficult “Advanced” path, but like the idea of seeing the traffic on my domain GA as well. I copied the code into the following location: my-domain.com/fbga and modified the code to reflect that location, instead of your servers. I then went out to GA and saw visits, but assume they came from your servers before I made the switch. How, other than waiting, can I determine if I did this right?

@iphp, Thanks for checking my page. I tried to generate a new code and now it’s working perfectly. The only thing that differs from my previous attempt is that I changed my facebook profile from “facebook.com/chasse.actu” to “www.facebook.com/chasse.actu” (and generated new tags based on that). About one hour after adding the “www.” it was already collecting data.

@Rob, to determine if you have setup things correctly, visit the img location on the code generated by your browser and it should redirect to Google analytics and show you a blank page
@Vishal, It looks like there is no tracking code installed on your fan page. Are you sure you have placed it correctly?
@e-chasse, That is strange but I am glad you got it working.
@Rovalou, Yes, that link is just for apps. If you need to track fan pages this is the only way to get Google Analytics working.

Presently we are tracking our facebook activity through our main google account. We can record visitors coming from there aswell as the ecommerce feature installed so we can see revenue generated from facebook. I’d like to gain a better knowledge of what pages, links etc are clicked on facebook to get to our site, so your method seems like we would acheive this.

However, my concern is that i wont beable to setup the ecommerce piece using your method. Do you know if this will be possible or not, or even have tried it yourself? Thanks. facebook.com/dennis.kirk.fb

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For self hosted WordPress blogs, you can add this tool to your own server by doing the following:

1) Download and unzip the self hosted server file provided by WebDigi
2) Unzip the file once you’ve downloaded it
3) Upload the entire folder to “public_html” directory for your WordPress blog
4) You should now be able to find the tool at yourblogname.com/fbga-version1.1

Hope this helps someone!

@Corey, Please take a look at the screenshot. This is where the code will go http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/adding-img-tag.png
@ Social Media SEO, thanks for sharing your wordpress idea. I have not tested this but hope it helps someone. Also, yes, just add UA-XXXXXXX-XX to the tool.
@ ricer, This method can only be used to track places that you have access to make source code edits and img tag. Which is all of Facebook custom fan pages, wall, etc at the moment.
@ ayon, I have not tried this on MySpace. Are you sure the UA-XXXXXX-XX was correctly placed?

Thanks for all your comments, I will try to answer them as I get the time.

Hello! Thanks a million. Gives me very good idea of what is going on in my pages.

Thanks so much for the how-to. Google Analytics is still showing the tracking status as not installed – I’m hopeful that it will work though. Would you mind giving it a check? Am I supposed to see an actual image? (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lecie-Gallery/301608373343)

Thank you for this! Worked great.

This same method also works for tracking Craigslist posts.

I haven’t tried it on MySpace yet but I don’t see any offending characters in the img url that would prevent it from working.

I’m wondering about tracking goal conversions originating from Facebook but then converting on our primary website. Google explains how to track analytics across different domains here:
google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55503

But this requires adding 2 lines of code to the on-page analytics code on both sites. Using your hosted service does not allow us to do this. Do you think it’s possible, on the backend, for you to add the additional two lines of code?

pageTracker._setDomainName(“none”);
pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true);

@Andrew, Thanks for confirming that this technique works on Craigslist! Let us know how it goes on MySpace.

@Fitz, Take a look at our new article which describes how you can track Goals, use filters, segments, etc. You might be able to use this to achieve what you are looking for. http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2010/tracking-user-engagement-on-facebook-fan-pages/

After several attempts, mine is working!
For some reason it did not like being on boxes tab and shortly after putting on wall, it started pulling in data. Wow, is this ever a great example of social networking and community. Thanks!

facebook.com/webermedia

It seems that when using code on my own server it doesn’t work because i tried yours hosted code and it works just fine.

However, here’s generation script working all fine on my server: gosocial.lt/fbga/

Have any ideas what’s the problem?

Thanks a lot but it doesn’t bring back an data in Google analytics. I reconfigured, let’s hope it works in a couple of hours.

In the meantime, I tried to add this in a text widget on my wordpress.com blog. Any idea if this could work?

This is awesome. Now there’s no need to invest with those companies that sell social media analytics. Thanks!

Two weeks ago I added this to a Facebook page and everything seemed to be working fine, but after a week I was surprised to see that the number of Absolute Unique Visitors was still 100%. Now after two weeks the number of visits are 19 517 and the number of absolute unique visitors are 19 515. Any idea what I did wrong? I used the solution for advanced users. This is the page: facebook.com/kondomeriet

Thanks for a great post, and for your patience answering all the comments, you’re great

Hi,

@iphp – thanks for your answer, but by “page” do you mean “Fan page” (which includes several sub-pages, such as wall, discography, infos, etc.) or each sub-page of a fan page? That’s where it gets confusing.

Thanks!
A.

Hello Webdigi,

First, big thanks to you guys for sharing and supporting this great tracking technique!

I’ve installed codes on every tabs and wall (except discussion and notes tabs but there’s no traffic on these pages), using your server. I’m getting data my page is facebook.com/weloveshortfilms.

Thank you very much for your help.

This is a great find, thank you!

Oh I didn;t know about it, thx for all information

And traffic sources are not identified properly (ex: visits from Adwords seem to be identified as facebook referral > is it something related to an automatic redirect ?

Thank you

We have the same WordPress theme! I am trying to figure out a way to track facebook in Google, and I stumbled on to you – Catherine

@Jean, how many pages are you tracking?

@Daniel, yes you can track the wall tab by using staticFBML and changing application settings to add box and removing tab.

Thanx, awesome post! Works nice…

Just wondering: I tried to track how many users left the page via external links in my staticFBML code, so I used <a href=”http://www.example.com” rel=”nofollow”> in combination with your code… Thought this should be working but it does not. Any ideas on this?

Cheers, Markus

@Markus, No facebook will not allow this kind of Javascript to run on facebook page. However, you should take a look at our advanced analytics page for tracking clicks

Can someone tell me that GA on my page is working? facebook.com/universityofmalaya .Thanks in advance.

@iphp, I use Google Chrome and the form kept giving me problems while trying to create the image links. Every time I clicked on a field, it kept putting focus on the `Analytics Code` field.

I re-wrote some of the HTML to fix this problem, and I also switched out the JavaScript to use jQuery (directly from Google). If you’re interested you can download the form code from here:

figmentthinking.com/ft_downloads/fbgat-jquery-index.zip

I did not repackage the full code, only the index.php that I modified.

@iphp, I agree with @Marion, I use Safari and the focus would not stay on a field in the form without clicking-holding whilst I typed in the data. Otherwise it would jump straight back to the ‘Analytics Code’ field.

Great piece of work overall though, got analytics working like a dream – thanks!

This article has a lot of the FBML steps that was skipped, if you are a beginner, here is some tutorials on the subject: facebookmarketingreview.com/tutorials/advanced-facebook-page-customization-fbml

Hey @iphp, first great job. Two quick questions:
1) I setup my wall with a page link of /wall. I have some unique FB apps like Web Appz, when I hit the WebAppz tab the url ends in “v=app_19827163485″ so do I create my new box with a page link of “app_19827163485″?

2) After I add additional FBML boxes and custom GA links they all show up under the Boxes tab. Don’t I need to move these to each of the unique tabs/pages that I want monitored? The only option is to move to the wall or delete, how do I get them to the proper tab/page?

hi, the code integrates fine in my FBML, but it shows that there is a broken or missing image at the bottom of the page. How do I get rid of that, to keep my design clean?

The doesn’t actually go to a transparent gif or anything.. should it?

I am still having a problem getting this to work. I’ve tried multiple methods, creating the FBML box and pasting it, and also pasting the code on the “bottom” of my page. But that is was i am not understanding, can you please be more specific on what the “bottom of my page” is? Greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help…
Cynaera

Thx for this really usefull information in a world of social media!

So how do I paste the code into the bottom of my pages? I there something I am missing in step 3? Can you explain this a bit better?

This really is a fantastic tool and I was excited to add the functionality that self-hosting would allow, but as previously mentioned, the package to self-host seems to have a scripting error in it. This results in the appearance of a broken image link on the facebook page. It gives a T-error on line 23 of Galvanize.php when you enter the link directly into the browser.

Is there a way to tag the rest of the tabs? Currently, there’s no way to drop the boxes into the Video, Links, and Photos tab. We have the boxes for those tabs resting in the Boxes tab- will it only pick up tracking when the user is at the boxes tab? Is there another work around to get tracking in these tabs, such as embedding code into the images that are uploaded into facebook? Please advise.

Word is facebook is planning on getting rid of the boxes tab in Fall 2010, and there will be a new platform in which to build new apps in instead of Static FBML- are their new plans in development to get GA into the new format?

Thats a lot of info to take in but very informative,thanks.

@Cassy, Please use the hosted version, there is something wrong with the image URL. Are you sure you are running a PHP version greater than 5? Please turn on error reporting there definitely is some kind of error. Ideally you should get redirected to Google (and shown a blank page) when you visit the FBGAT link on your browser.

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Great, thanks a million for this. Tracking all my visitors perfectly!!

Well, probably a silly question, but… HOW can I add an image to the bottom of an fb fan page?

I cant thank enough for this!

@Clacton, Awesome, glad you got this working, thanks for reporting back!

@Brandon, For applications (canvas applications), I suggest you use Fb:google-analytics. If you search developer documentation or on Google, you will get answers to this. If you prefer to use this, yes you need to add variable

@Paolo, / or /wall should do the trick. I prefer /wall. It looks like you figured out how to add image to the bottom of the page. A screenshot is at the footer of the actual article, before comments.

@Collin, I visited your page and it looks like things are working correctly, you should see logs appear on Google Analytics soon!

hey there, i got it working perfectly, but i tried it on a page with seo-friendly urls first. now i wanna integrate it into a page with smaller amount of fans and crappy urls. how deep should i define the url path? is like
/BlaBla ok?
or do i need /pages/BlaBla ?
or even /pages/BlaBla/101963159841418
or (! one more, sorry^^!) /pages/BlaBla/101963159841418?v=app_4949752878 (in case there is an app)

still big thanks, for seo frndly urls working perfect.

hey @awesomeness : thx, thats probably why its not working

I was using an old tracking code related to the fan page and the tracking information wasn’t showing up. When I created a new profile in Google Analytics and used that instead, it started working again. I’m still not sure how to get a different code on the Wall and Info page though.

Thanks!

Hi all,
I need your help.
Im customizing a fan page with 2 new tabs (newsletter, shops)- Each tab is made with a img that links to the website. Does UTM parametres (source,content..) works in the fbml code?
Plus, I have some questions for the generator code

Analytics Code: is the one of my website (already existing) or the one of the new analytics profile facebook.com/myfanpage)

Domains on analytics: is it mywebsite.com or facebook.com?

page link: is it the link (ie /newsletter.php) linked to the img in the tab?

Thank you

Wonderful! You guys are the bee’s knees.

I´ve installed the tracking code in my client page and it works perfectly!
My doubt is in GA the information about “time on site” is 00:00:00 and you said that this info is working.
Any issues with that?
facebook/animalebrasil

TKS!

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Hi, great job!
Can I use fgba for tracking email marketing campaign?
It’s seam that’s possible… it’s like the classic gif insert method

Domain on Analytics: mydomain
Page Link: alternate-webpage-url-of-email-HTML/newsletter-date.html
Page Title: newsletter-date

[don't need GA-code in the alternate page, keep the img gif code]

Thanks you very much, very usefull

Regards
@dmsr

Thanks a lot for this I followed your directions and I am getting the “Tracking Not Installed” error code, I will give it some time and see if it starts working. Once again great blog post and thanks

Chris
@lifterCatcher

Update: after a couple more hours, the GA registered the feed. I’m anticipating my first daily report in an hour!

Thanks again!

@ iPHP, though it might seem logical that using fb:google-analytics on a canvas page would be applicable on a profile tab, too. Hopefully, I can save someone some headache, or maybe they could tell me what I’m doing wrong. But your tracking method worked, and I said no more need to beat my head against the wall.

What a great solution. I’d like to try it out, if anyone can give me a hand just by visiting the page so I can see if it tracks in a few hours. Thanks again!!

facebook.com/shotinthedarkmysteries

Leigh Clements
Shot In The Dark Mysteries

Thank you for all of your help. I’ve been able to set up analytics on the Wall of my page and am tracking visits, but so far the Overlay function doesn’t seem to be working. Is there anything special that needs to be done to set it up?

Thanks!

Dear iphp,

Thanks for the tutorial. It works everywhere except on my wall.
I put the code in a FBML with some other info so that the box would show up.
Under Application Settings I removed the tab and added a box.

But the next step:
“Once a box is added it will be displayed under the Boxes section. All you have to do is to click on the little edit icon and select “Move to Wall”.”

I dont know where i can find that. can you discibe this some more? Maybe add a screenshot?

Thanks!

Thanks to your post successfully implemented Google Analytics to our fanpage’s wall. So far it has been working perfectly!

Facebook is planning on removing boxes from profiles. I know the code will still work on the tabs but do you have a solution for tracking wall visits without boxes?

A-W-E-S-O-M-E thanks for offering this to the open public.

Question, can I somehow pass custom “user variables” to GA? Whether using the hosted version or tweaking the self-hosted?

Thanks!

Thanks! Will definitely share it back if we get it working. Again, thanks for sharing this with everyone.

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Dear iphp, I’ve read all this blog and there is excelent information. Thanks, but I got an issue, when you posted before that to track the Wall you need to add a staticFBML to the wall changing the settings adding a box and remove tab is where the troubles comes up. When I go to settings only the TAB configuration to add or remove appear, nothing about to ADD BOX only to add or remove TAB. How can this be configured or changed?

Thanks!

Screencast: How to Add Google Analytics to Your Facebook Fan Page

craftyman.net/google-analytics-facebook/

Thanks for sharing this. I knew it was just a matter of time.

Hello,

This article is really interesting. Thanks for sharing this tips.

But I still have a problem for tracking the wall activity.

How do you do to put the code on the wall since Facebook remove the box?

Have you fin a work around?

Tx for answering.

Have a nice Day,

Ben.

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I wonder if it would be possible to put the IMG tag as your profile pic?

Perhaps I am dumber then I actually think I am.

Thrilled I found GA solution. I totally understand where to embed Your generator code on page(s).

Server side upload: would that be the actual GA code generated by Google or
the one that I got from your Generator?

Please Advise

Facebook has removed the Box. Does this mean we can no longer track the Wall? Or I’m missing something?

Thanks!

guys is it possible to Modify the script to work with Other Analytics Providers ? I don’t want use GA

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Excellent tip. Any new solution for tracking wall visits now that Facebook got rid of boxes? Thanks!

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Thanks for sharing the info. its nice to see a proper replacement to Facebook insights for ages.

Hi,
I was wondering why you’re working with: utma, utmb, utmc and utmz. If I use your script within my tab-app Facebook doesn’t track referals either, do they?

@php-manual: Thanks, I tried to refactor and improve this whole thing and I don’t understand these lines, but i ll try to implement them either.

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thanx

Great. Thanks

Thanks

Great!It is a good think!

I have setup google, generated the code, but as usual, facebooks stumps me. I setup and FBML page, but cannot add or insert the generated code anywhere. Can you please help me and walk me through why I cannot have a proper FBML page I cannot edit?
Thank you very much.
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Wish I could track outbound clicks on my FB page. This will only track visits. Great solution though and one of the few around. If anyone has any advice on how to track outbound clicks on a FB Fan Page, I (and everyone here) would certainly welcome this info!

Thanks!

All visits are tracked perfectly for me. Thanks so much for this awesome work!

Hi there

Apologies, I’m a bit of a novice! I’ve followed the steps above for adding google analytics to my facebook page, but…

How do I actually do this?:

“Add the entire custom image html tag from step 2 to the bottom of each Facebook fan page that you need to track.”

Thanks!

@dmac Yep, you’ll need to change that line. It’s calling a file to pass parameters to. index.phpfbga.php isn’t a real file, so this will produce nothing. You’ll want to change it to fbga.php (remove “index.php”). HTH.

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Very interesting…

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What social media tools (like Radian6, SM2, etc) cost less than $500/month?…

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@iphp
so, since facebook removed boxes, we can no longer use this to track visits to our wall???

Hi
Brilliant posting, I have been designing facebook pages for some of my clients, will certainly look to add this functionality to the pages.
Site bookmarked!

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I have same problem that Fred and Kurt.

I need new solution about the Google Analytics on Wall of Facebook Page.

@sam Steiner

You are right , there is not more boxes now

Hi There,

I have a question. I made an custom image html tag and have to add this to the bottom of eacht Facebook fan page that i track. But how do i do that?
Can someone help me?
Thanx,
Leander

Nice Post! Very informative.

Has anyone come up with a solution to track the Wall page since the new layout?
Facebook should look into providing this feature

Kudos

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Not a techie and I got it going so thanks a ton.

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Please tell me how to add this code to the fan page.

hi,

I read Complete article, this article very antic and interesting.
i like it..
thank for sharing experience.

How to add code google analytics to Facebook fanpage user tab Iframe. Not user static FBML

Good article, Im not a code ninja but I get de meaning of your post, is simple.

Thanks, I have been looking for a good tracking method, like Google analytics!

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am amazing!didn”t know we can use google analytics fan page! Now I will try to use it !

Many thanks for the interesting and useful article. I like it much.

One of my concern is that how to track wall page now because Facebook doesn’t support box and Static FBML anymore?

Thanks again.

I pasted the code in to my facebook page. But I still get a notice saying “Tracking Not Installed”. Please help.

If Im not mistaken there are more than 700 000 people on this great ball we are living on. There is always a reason why the rest dont have a FB Profile. Many because they dont have access to an internet connection.

I believe that Google’s users will come from this source, a new generation as well as some who find Google+ to be more suitable for their needs.

I’ll stay with FB for now and be a happy tester for Google+.

Let’s see…

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Magnificent site. A lot of useful info here. I’m sending it to some friends ans also sharing in delicious. And obviously, thanks for your sweat!

hi.. i’ve followed the steps
1. generate google analytics image code
2. paste the img code to below my static fbml page
3. went back to google analytics next day.. it is showing clicks

This is the page where i installed the code facebook.com/pages/FitzforLife/168769133152483?v=app_4949752878

Tnx.

Interesting, Thanks!!!

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Hi, Just Creating myself a page… everything here looks simple enough and I’m just waiting for the Tracking Status to update (tomorrow now I guess). However what kind of stats will I be expecting to see? I’m figuring Just actual hard figures?

And certainly not Actual Users Names, or IP’s…. Hope not anyhow.??? Anyone???

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For you all this must be peace of cake. But for me as a newbie step 2 and 3 doesn’t make sence.
2) Create your custom img tag for each of your pages you like to track. EG: contact form, services, products etc. You can use our tool to create the Google Analytics link generator for Facebook pages.

How does this img tag has to look like? What does it consist of (well of course the tracking code, but this one I have)

3) Add the entire custom image html tag from step 2 to the bottom of each Facebook fan page that you need to track.

Add it to the bottom of each fan page?? How do I do that? With fmbl, but isn’t there a walk through anyone can give me?

Really need some extra screenshots to know exactly what to do and where.