[theme-reviewers] Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Code OK on Author & Theme URI?

[Victor Tihai]

Just for information
http://goo.gl/K6scD<http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55540>


Regards
Victor


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 02:09, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> As an "off-by-default option" for the end-user to accept is the only way I
> would consider this (this still does not mean I would approve it, but I
> would at least consider it further) ... as well as including a clear simple
> language explanation to the end-user on why they are being asked to allow
> their online activity to be tracked by the theme author.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Victor Tihai <victor at tihai.md> wrote:
>
>> Regardless if there is or not the Campaign Tracking, the information
>> about who clicked and visited the site you can find in Google Analitycs
>> Traffic Sources --> Sources --> Referrals.
>>
>> Campaign Tracking permit to group all referrals (you can find this in
>> Analitycs  Traffic Sources --> Sources --> Campaings). This gives the
>> possibility to make comparation between two or many themes, and this is
>> very important for the authors.
>>
>> The code from the url doesn't collect the information about the users who
>> installed the theme or the users who have visited the blog with this theme
>> activated.
>>
>> You need to make difference between Campaign Tracking and Tracking Code
>> because thereare not the some things.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Victor
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 00:46, Angelo Bertolli <angelo.bertolli at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Google's TOS states:
>>>
>>> "If You use the Service on behalf of any Third Party, You represent and
>>> warrant that (a) You are authorized to act on behalf of, and bind to
>>> this Agreement, that Third Party , (b) as between the Third Party and
>>> You, the Third Party owns any rights to Customer Data in the applicable
>>> account, and (c) You shall not disclose Third Party's Customer Data to
>>> any other party without the Third Party's consent."
>>>
>>> and continues on from there.  Sounds questionable.
>>>
>>> On 01/10/2012 05:34 PM, James Laws wrote:
>>> > I can understand the reason for wanting to track this kind of thing but
>>> > I personally don't like the idea of theme authors tracking this data. I
>>> > may be off base but if I were reviewing a theme with this kind of thing
>>> > I wouldn't approve it.
>>> >
>>> > On Tuesday, January 10, 2012, Robert Ambartsumov <robert6292 at gmail.com
>>> > <mailto:robert6292 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> >> Well, why you have to have a tracking on the front end anyway? you
>>> > could insert a tracking in the back end and this way you will know when
>>> > the theme is activated the tracking is fired.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Valeriu Tihai <valeriu at tihai.md
>>> > <mailto:valeriu at tihai.md>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hello everyone,
>>> >> I'm the one who introduced campaign tracking code (Google Analytics).
>>> >> Before I done this I have read several times Credit
>>> > Links http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links
>>> >> I searched in this list if there have been previous discussion of such
>>> > kind: http://bit.ly/xkzi59 http://bit.ly/zk7i23
>>> >> I did not found that it is forbidden, so it is allowed.
>>> >> The aim is not tracking visitors from wordpress.org
>>> > <http://wordpress.org>, I agree with Emil Uzelac that there are other
>>> > ways to do this thing.
>>> >> Instead I want to have a tracking campaign of the theme that will be
>>> > installed on different blogs, and for this I need that the link from
>>> > footer also to contain variables of the GA.
>>> >> But there is a problem ( Credit link, if used, is required to use
>>> > either Theme URI or Author URI. ) that obliges me to put the same link
>>> > also in style.css
>>> >> If it is possible that credit link to contain variables GA and links
>>> > for Theme Author and Author URI to be without these variables, so I am
>>> > only for this solution, I can immediately prepare a new version that
>>> > will contain these changes.
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