With our recent Social Plugin Analytics launch you now have the ability to analyse how users engage with any social plugin such as Google’s +1 button and Twitter’s Tweet button. Now it’s time for the lowdown on how to set this feature up to work for you. If you are a developer, you should pay particularly close attention.added +1 buttons to your site and your Analytics implementation is up to date, integration is automatic and you should already see data in your account. You can ensure the +1 integration is working by taking some simple steps.other social plugins , like Twitter, we’ve also made it really easy. The latest version of the tracking code has a new _trackSocial method to capture various aspects of a social plugin interaction. Using the async javascript snippet , the easiest way to call this method is to use:_gaq.push([‘_trackSocial’, socialNetwork, socialAction]); var pageTracker = _gat._createTracker(‘UA-xxxxx-y’); pageTracker._trackSocial(socialNetwork, socialAction); Twitter’s plugin API as well as Facebook’s plugin API and you can see a working demo here . Sweet!submitting your plugin here .UPDATE: 7/8/11 5:30pm PST, corrected references to the social plugin analytics feature.Posted by John Jersin, Google Analytics Team
