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So confused about this. I was using GA until one day it just stopped reporting my external link click events? It’s been stuck at 71 clicks for over a week. I was using the free form reporting tool. Maybe I uninstalled a plugin that caused it to stop tracking in GA? Anyway, I have google drive links on my site that I want to track. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Do I use Google Tag Manager for this. or can I just use GA? I also have Monster insights installed. Thanks!
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Edit; For those wondering, my free form report works, however it is not updating. You need to select Outbound for your dimensions and then put that in your filter.
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You’re going to set up event tracking in both GTM and GA.
If all you want to do is track clicks on [drive.google.com](https://drive.google.com) links, then you can tell the event listener to fire when a link’s URL has the above in it. Or, if you want to track all external links, then tell it to look for target=”_blank” attributes and fire on those clicks.
A quick Google for “track external link clicks using GTM and Google Analytics” should get you some tutorials to do this.