How to track clicks on non-unique elements?

Question

Google Analytics

Suppose there is the same link on the page, located on the page in different places (for example, in the header and footer). The task is to track the number of clicks on only one of the links, for example, from the footer.
How to implement it? trigger by url is not suitable, of course

Answer 1

Or add an insignificant parameter to it (link?i_parameter=1) or hang a Google Analytics event on the link , which will be passed to the counter.