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Topic-icon Facebook login 'pinging' out to 'Friends'

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Hi,

Everything is working fine, but I want to know if the Facebook 'pings' whenever someone logs in are producing any traffic.

What is the easiest way to know if a 'friend' who was 'pinged' after a login clicked the link to visit our site?

Is there any way to do it other than making the return link a different landing page to the one on all our other promotional material?

Many thanks, Mike.
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14 years 10 months ago #12110 by alzander
Although I haven't tested this, you should be able to add any query parameters you want to the URL in the Login/Registration wall post. These can be used by Google Analytics or whatever other methods you use to track. For building the right query for Analytics to automatically track things, you can user their URL builder below:
www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578

To my knowledge, Facebook doesn't strip any of the utm_xxx tags, but you'll have to test and see. Of course, if you have other ways to detect referals, you can add that to your query string as well.

Hope that helps,
Alex
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Hi,

Thanks for info but analytics tags looks more complicated than we need, so will go with different landing page.

At the moment ping message and URL is picked up from Global Configuration site name and site meta description.

Is there a different way I can include a URL to a specific page?

Many thanks, Mike.
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14 years 10 months ago #12117 by alzander
In the configuration area of JFBConnect, on the Status/Wall tab, you can set the specific URL that is posted for your page. Then, to set the title and description for that page, you'll need to use the Open Graph tags. These can be enabled in the Social configuration area under the Open Graph tag. Simply enable them there, and then on the page that you're posting to user's wall, add the following tags:
{JFBCGraph title=Title for page}
{JFBCGraph description=Better description for Facebook for this page}

You can add these tags to any page, and they'll be used when posted to a wall either through login/registration or when a user likes, comments, or otherwise shares a page.

Hope that helps,
Alex
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