Best bets click analytics

gavin1211 · March 30, 2022, 8:52am

We have noticed that best bet clicks are not being registered in the marketing dashboard, is there a code change or some config needs done to enable this.

Below is a Gist showing example of our Best Bets code:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/gavin-boyd/de5fbab368c9f1af8416bc4c64867c8e

bestbets.ftl

  <#-- Best Bets -->
  <#if (response.resultPacket.bestBets)!?size &gt; 0 || curatorAdvertPresent >
    <#list response.curator.exhibits as exhibit>
      <#if exhibit.titleHtml?? && exhibit.linkUrl??>
        <#if exhibit.displayUrl??>
          <div class="callout" id="bestbet" role="contentinfo" aria-labelledby="bestbet">
            <h3><a href="${exhibit.displayUrl}"><@s.boldicize><#noescape>${exhibit.titleHtml}</#noescape></@s.boldicize></a></h3>
            <#if exhibit.descriptionHtml??><p><#noescape>${exhibit.descriptionHtml}</#noescape></p></#if>
          </div>
        </#if>

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plevan · March 31, 2022, 2:53am

Hi Gavin,

I believe you should use ${exhibit.linkUrl} as the href target.

For the click tracking to be working you need your best bets hyperlink in the search results to be something like https://your-funnelback-server/s/redirect?some-params

This causes the redirector to log the click then redirect the user to the best bets target URL.

gavin1211 · March 31, 2022, 8:01am

Thanks @plevan that now works using ${exhibit.linkUrl}