Tips And Tricks : How to track Drupal comments as goals in Google Analytics

I was inspired by this episode of SEOMoz's whiteboard friday where Rand talks about tracking non-traditional conversions (like when someone posts a comment on your blog) so I decided to check out how easy this was to do in Drupal.

By default, when someone submits a comment, they are redirected back to the node to view their comment (even if it needs approval first). This causes a problem because it doesn't really give us a unique URL to use as a goal in Google Analytics (unlike the webform module).

What you'll need to do is grab the great actions module which we will use to redirect the user to a custom thank you page once their comment has been submitted. And while thats downloading and installing, create a new page that will be the thank you page when users submit a comment. 

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