Track Click event (goal) triggered by jQuery

[#1]

In variation, I have the following code:

jQuery("#link_id").click();    //trigger click event from the code

in goals, I want to track clicks on #link_id

But Optimizely is not tracking the clicks. Any idea why?

[#2]

Have you considered using that exact click event and triggering an event in the code of Optimizely as well so you could use that as custom event in the goal settings of your test?

[#3]

In my case, the click event on the Control was tracking fine but not in the Variation because in the Variation, click event was triggered from the code.
Adding the following line of code before raising the click event did the trick:
window.optimizely.push(["trackEvent", "control_click_event_name_here"]);

I guess, you meant the same. Thanks.