Analytics: Goal Tracking
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I am trying to track goals in Google Analytics for a website that has the same goal URL for main website and various sub-domains. The main domain for example is: mymaindomain.com and the sub-domain are my1st.subdomain.com, my2nd.subdomain.com, etc. but the Goal URL is same for all the sub-domains and main domain, i.e. mymaindomains.com/pay/thanks.html. I have Google Analytics configured to track domains and all sub-domains and I’ve already setup the goal for each sub-domain and even created the funnel as well for each sub-domain. However, in goal tracking, it always shows “0”.
I am also looking forward to get some help to set up an advanced filter so I can see traffic to my sub-domains in Analytics.
Thanks!
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All I did was enter the full url string of my conversion page as a goal in GA and it seems to be working fine. Worth a test?
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I'm having the same conundrum. Advice would be helpful!
Asking my SEO + Marketing firm... will report back with an answer.
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Hi,
+1 this.
Here is the problem in a nutshell as it has not yet been answered:
For those of you with only one domain, it is easy to setup a goal and conversion funnel in GA for a Page URL goal. You simply type in your goal URL, starting with: / ... For example: /thankyou.html
But the problem then occurs when you have mydomain.com AND sub.mydomain.com.
You see, the goals don't work anymore because GA instructs you NOT to put the full URL.
Do you see the problem this creates? In other words, how do you track goals while also having domain and subdomain tracking?
I am having this problem. I have already read ALL the documentation on subdomain tracking - my reports are working just fine.
I have searched heavily in Google for this answer and have found nothing. Nevertheless, my goals still show 0 and I am 100% positive that I have had conversions.
Any advice?
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OK I'll try that, cheers!
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I don't think so, cross tracking is sometimes very hard... I'm not sure, but using searchtype "regular expression" and goal "shop.gardio.* "?? Will that work for you?
When you just want to know the % of visitors which went to shop.domain.com maybe Enhanced Link Attribution is also interesting: http://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2558867?hl=en&ref_topic=2558810
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Thanks, yes I had been thru that guide already. Maybe it is just me being slow... But I still don't get how I write the goal URL. For example, our main site is at www.gardio.se and our shop at shop.gardio.se, and I want to set as a goal to measure the % of visitors that go into the shop. Normally I would put the goal URL to be just "/", but now that I have multiple subdomains, how do i write the goal URL?
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Hi Sven,
This article will help you implementing cross (sub)domain tracking: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingSite
When you implement this well, you can use one goal url.
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Olaf that article was really helpful! BUT does not explain how to write the URI for settings goals to measure goal conversion. Any idea?
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Hi,
Could you share a screenshot on how you set up the goals at this moment? This would give us some insights to see where the problem could be. I've got a feeling but it makes no sense to sent you in the woods looking for something if it could be not there. So a screenshot of your goal setup/ funnel would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Maybe this article will help you: http://www.ericmobley.net/guide-to-tracking-multiple-subdomains-in-google-analytics/
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