Just for information
<a href="http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55540">http://goo.gl/K6scD</a> <br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Victor</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">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 class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><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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