A few months ago Google announced the introduction of social share tracking in Google Analytics. In a world where social sharing has become an excellent way to allow website visitors to share content with the rest of the world, we were thrilled to see this development being introduced in Google Analytics. Today Google announced that Sharethis and AddtoAny buttons are automatically tracked in Google Analytics and Addthis social share buttons only require a few lines of additional code to show up in your Google Analytics reports.

Google Analytics has just announced a new set of reports (and functionality) that will enable websites to track social interaction with their content. This comes as a welcomed addition to the new Google+1 button, as it now enables one to measure the impact of social interactions in and outside websites.

Google Analytics social engagement tracking compares the impact of different types of social actions on your website. It not only tracks +1s, but it also tracks Twitter tweets, Facebook Likes, Facebook Sends and other social actions.

Most Joomla website have a contact form to make sure that visitors of the website can get in touch with them easily. Joomla has a standard contact form which you can use. You can even set up multiple contact forms with the Joomla component. This makes it easy to let visitors contact specific departments of your company. We have developed an easy way to track form submissions with event tracking in Google Analytics, differentiating submission of different contact forms.

To use this instruction, you will need to use the standard comment form provided by a new installation of Joomla. You will also need access to the files of your Joomla website (preferably by FTP). We have focused our instruction on the latest version of Joomla 1.5 (v1.5.23). Instructions may vary on different versions of the component.