<font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Technically there's nothing wrong with campaign tracking URL, however I don't think that this is appropriate for Theme/Author URL that's all. It would be nice to track how world uses our Themes but that's not what repository can offer you. GA in general is not accepted in any form or shape, not really sure what else you can do to fulfill this Victor.</font></font></font><div>
<font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emil<br></font><div>
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Victor Tihai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:victor@tihai.md" target="_blank">victor@tihai.md</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Just for information
<a href="http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55540" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/K6scD</a> <br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>
Victor</div></font></span><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 02:09, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
<br><br clear="all">Cais.<div><div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Victor Tihai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:victor@tihai.md" target="_blank">victor@tihai.md</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>
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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>You need to make difference between Campaign Tracking and Tracking Code because thereare not the some things.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Victor</div><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 00:46, Angelo Bertolli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:angelo.bertolli@gmail.com" target="_blank">angelo.bertolli@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Google's TOS states:<br>
<br>
"If You use the Service on behalf of any Third Party, You represent and<br>
warrant that (a) You are authorized to act on behalf of, and bind to<br>
this Agreement, that Third Party , (b) as between the Third Party and<br>
You, the Third Party owns any rights to Customer Data in the applicable<br>
account, and (c) You shall not disclose Third Party's Customer Data to<br>
any other party without the Third Party's consent."<br>
<br>
and continues on from there. Sounds questionable.<br>
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On 01/10/2012 05:34 PM, James Laws wrote:<br>
> I can understand the reason for wanting to track this kind of thing but<br>
> I personally don't like the idea of theme authors tracking this data. I<br>
> may be off base but if I were reviewing a theme with this kind of thing<br>
> I wouldn't approve it.<br>
><br>
> On Tuesday, January 10, 2012, Robert Ambartsumov <<a href="mailto:robert6292@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert6292@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><div>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:robert6292@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert6292@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> Well, why you have to have a tracking on the front end anyway? you<br>
> could insert a tracking in the back end and this way you will know when<br>
> the theme is activated the tracking is fired.<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Valeriu Tihai <<a href="mailto:valeriu@tihai.md" target="_blank">valeriu@tihai.md</a><br>
</div><div>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:valeriu@tihai.md" target="_blank">valeriu@tihai.md</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hello everyone,<br>
>> I'm the one who introduced campaign tracking code (Google Analytics).<br>
>> Before I done this I have read several times Credit<br>
> Links <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links</a><br>
>> I searched in this list if there have been previous discussion of such<br>
> kind: <a href="http://bit.ly/xkzi59" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/xkzi59</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/zk7i23" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/zk7i23</a><br>
>> I did not found that it is forbidden, so it is allowed.<br>
>> The aim is not tracking visitors from <a href="http://wordpress.org" target="_blank">wordpress.org</a><br>
</div>> <<a href="http://wordpress.org" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org</a>>, I agree with Emil Uzelac that there are other<br>
<div>> ways to do this thing.<br>
>> Instead I want to have a tracking campaign of the theme that will be<br>
> installed on different blogs, and for this I need that the link from<br>
> footer also to contain variables of the GA.<br>
>> But there is a problem ( Credit link, if used, is required to use<br>
> either Theme URI or Author URI. ) that obliges me to put the same link<br>
> also in style.css<br>
>> If it is possible that credit link to contain variables GA and links<br>
> for Theme Author and Author URI to be without these variables, so I am<br>
> only for this solution, I can immediately prepare a new version that<br>
> will contain these changes.<br>
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