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Facebook Conversion Tracking On a Click

Posted on 02/10/2014 at 12:36 pm by Kevin Wentworth
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Be Cautious Using Conversion Tracking Scripts Supplied by Vendors

We recently experienced a small challenge with the Facebook Conversion Tracking script.  We were using the standard boiler plate script as provided to developers by facebook.  What's touted as a simple method to integrate conversion tracking may not work if you actually want to track on a click action, instead of on a page load.  If you are actually using any JavaScript (particularly jQuery) on your site prior to adding the Facebook Conversion Tracking code, you might not track any conversions.

Tracking Facebook Conversions on Click

Simple answer: make sure var fb_param; is in the GLOBAL variable scope.

Long answer: see below.

This is the common script is supplied by Facebook:

Making Facebook Conversion Tracking Play Nice

In our cakephp driven sites, we determined (only after some rigorous debugging) that the fb_param array was undefined in the click handler. In this instance, the problem was easily resolved by relocating the var fb_params; declaration up to the global-scope level.

We placed var fb_param = {}; outside of the  "$(document).ready(function() {"  thus making it globally available.

Cheers,
-Kevin Wentworth