If you use Trackable Links and wish to track these links using Yahoo! Web Analytics, you can add a unique identifier to the end of your trackable link, which will be recorded in your reports.

For this example, the unique identifier ?myid1234 will be added to http://mydomain.com/bestproduct.html, so the link directed to and recorded is http://mydomain.com/bestproduct.html?myid1234. In order to do this, your trackable link would need to be formatted as follows, ensuring that the question mark (?) in unique identifier is URL encoded:

[URL generated by Create Links tool]+http://mydomain.com/bestproduct.html%3fmyid1234

For example:
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-11111111111111+AbCDeF+http://mydomain.com/bestproduct.html%3fmyid1234

In this case, the question mark (?) in the unique identifier ?myid1234 has been URL encoded using %3f. When a visitor is directed to your site using this trackable link, the URL recorded will include the unique identifier.

• Percent-encoding (Wikipedia)

Using Campaign Tracking with Trackable Links

1. In Analytics Reports section of Yahoo! Web Analytics, click the "Settings" link located at the top of the screen.
2. From the Settings screen, locate the Campaigns and PPC section, and click the "Manage campaigns" link (Figure 1).
   
   
   Figure 1. The "Manage Campaigns" link.
   
   
3. Select a campaign type (for this example, "Other Campaigns" will be used), then click the "Add new campaign" button (Figure 2).
   
   
   Figure 2. Select a campaign type.
   
   
4. Enter a campaign name and optional description, select a campaign cost type, and set campaign start and end dates.
5. Ensure that "Show" is selected for the "Show campaign in reports" option.
6. In the Campaign Settings section of the screen, choose "Landing Page URL contains" as the campaign setting parameter from the drop-down list, and enter the link's unique identifier in the field provided. For this example, ?myid1234 will be used (Figure 3).
   
   
   Figure 3. choose "Landing Page URL contains" as the campaign setting parameter.
   
   
7. Click the Update button to save your campaign tracking settings.