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

[Edward Caissie]

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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