What if you are establishing your Google Analytic Goals and your end result is not for a user to reach a specific web page, but instead to download a PDF file? How do you program the Google Analytics Goal? Can it be done?
Yes, it can. A Google Analytics Goal can be the downloading of a PDF, AVI or WMV file. This requires different progamming than the normal steps to set a web page as a Goal. It requires the placement of specific javascript on your file download link.
For example, to log every click on a particular link to www.mysite.com/files/whitepaper.pdf as a pageview for /downloads/whitepaper you would add the following attribute to the link’s <a> tag:
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/files/whitepaper.pdf" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview(’/downloads/whitepaper’); ">
Read the full Google article here.
