Tracking Goals on a Subdomain?
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What needs to be done to Analytics to track goal completions on a subdomain?
The main Analytics profile is set up for example.com, but landing pages for paid campaigns are set up at sub.example.com. Thank-you page is sub.example.com/thank-you.php
What needs to be modified in Analytics (or to the Analytics code) or how do the goals need to be set up to track these subdomain conversions all within the same Analytics profile? They're not tracking currently.
Thanks.
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That seems to be working. I'll test it for a week and see what happens.
I tried that at some point, because that's also what I thought it should be, but it didn't work. Not sure what made the difference.
Thank you.
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Oh, for your destination, if your profile is using relative URLs (/thankyou.html) you don't need to include the http://sub.example.com in your match, and if you did this may have been why it was not reporting data.
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Ok, well in that case you don't want event tracking, you can just set visits to that page as a goal and get some even better reports.
Go to admin -> goals (right column) -> create goal -> type: destination
For goal details, just set the destination as regular expression match with this in the field:
/thank-you.php
This regex will match the destination page whether or not it is on a subdomain. You can also assign a value (usually the average conversion amount from transactions leading to that page) or throw in funnel steps if you'd like.
Hope this helps,
Chris Wilson
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This is how they have it set up:
That's being used on both the domain and subdomains,
The goal in Analytics is set to track when people reach http://sub.example.com/thank-you.php, but it's not tracking.
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What is your event tracking code and profile tracking code for the subdomain? I personally separate out subdomains into UA-xxxxxxx-2 and so on, but event tracking should still work if you have everything lumped into one subprofile.
Example profile tracking code:
Example event tracking code:
onClick="ga('send', 'event', 'Share', 'Facebook', 'Homepage Stat');"
or
onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Donate', 'Click']);"
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