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

Wed Jan 11 00:56:12 UTC 2012

I wouldn't be surprised if variables are stripped from the urls when they
are displayed on the repo anyway, if they aren't they should be.

On 11 January 2012 00:50, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Emil
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Victor Tihai <victor at tihai.md> wrote:
>
>> 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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