Hi guys, I am currently making a website for a musician and he is offering a free download of his album. I have built that into the site, but is there an easy way to track how many people download it?

 

I see google analytics(sp?) is the way to go, but I have never undertook something like this before and would appreciate some help as to where to start.

 

If i can provide any more info, please let me know

 

Many thanks

Try this: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55529

 

You add an OnClick javascript handler for the link to download the file like this:

 

<a href="http://www.example.com/files/downloadedfile.zip" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/downloads/map'); ">