Hi, I'm pretty new to development and I am facing difficulty in counting the page views for anonymous visitors. I want to allow my blog visitors to browse and see atmost 3 blog articles and then show them a popup form asking them to register to see to the other articles. I was going through the hubspot tracking code API and was wondering if anyone has implemented a similar stuff in their hubspot blog: To read from cookie the number of pages visited by the anonymous visitor and then according to the number of pages visited popup a form?
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Hi Karthick! I haven't seen anyone implement this before, and I don't think our tracking code API gives any options that would allow you to read the views of a cookie that's not yet associated to a contact in the CRM.
However it could be possible using a custom script placing a cookie. If you were to create a script that placed a cookie to track those page views you could then customize the script to overlay a sign-up form on the blog URLs once they had read 3 articles.
As above, I haven't seen this implemented, so I don't have example code or anything, however I hope the context about the HubSpot options helps.
Hi Neal, Regarding creatin a custom script to place a cookie, my developer told me that it would not be possible since hubspot does not allow server-side scripting. Is there any other way to do this?
Hi Karthick - on the HubSpot side there's no functionality to achieve this in-app for anonymous visitors. The above cookie suggestion would be the best suggestion I have, and should be possible if run with on page scripts (i.e. scripts embedded to your HubSpot page header). That's not to say it would be straightforward, but there are tools that place custom cookies on HubSpot pages using scripts loaded on the page level, so placing a cookie or custom tracking pixel via a page level script should be feasible to test out.
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