Comments on: Google Analytics – creating multiple goals http://brettpringle.com/analytics/google-analytics-creating-multiple-goals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-analytics-creating-multiple-goals The parts between search, social and marketing Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:36:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Brett Pringle http://brettpringle.com/analytics/google-analytics-creating-multiple-goals/#comment-3754 Brett Pringle Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:04:12 +0000 http://brettpringle.com/?p=117#comment-3754 Great :) Let me know how things turn out Great :)

Let me know how things turn out

]]> By: Amy Ganderson http://brettpringle.com/analytics/google-analytics-creating-multiple-goals/#comment-3752 Amy Ganderson Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:40:58 +0000 http://brettpringle.com/?p=117#comment-3752 Thanks Brett. I tested out the goal data to come in sitewide and it worked. I'll try the regular expression with the www in the filter pattern. Fingers crossed :) Thanks Brett. I tested out the goal data to come in sitewide and it worked. I’ll try the regular expression with the www in the filter pattern. Fingers crossed :)

]]> By: Brett Pringle http://brettpringle.com/analytics/google-analytics-creating-multiple-goals/#comment-3648 Brett Pringle Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:50:33 +0000 http://brettpringle.com/?p=117#comment-3648 Hi Amy, Goal data you wish to track, is it subdomain specific or sitewide? Goals are pretty much profile specific, so i'm just assuming based on your comment above that you are looking for to have all data displayed for goals (including the subdomains) within the parent domain? However you are able to track global goals within the parent domain profile if you have customised your parent domain filters to append the hostname to your request URI, you should be able to track goals across all domains for example: thankyou.asp is the confirmation page you wish to track, and the parent domain profile has the filter for the hostname, it will track goal data from say blog.example.com/thankyou.asp in the parent profile. Only catch is, you will need to be very careful with the goal setup if you are using goal funnels. Ahh, regular expressions, boy those give my brain a hard time sometimes. Have you tried adding the "www" to the filter pattern, to specify the entire hostname for the parent domain? Hi Amy,

Goal data you wish to track, is it subdomain specific or sitewide? Goals are pretty much profile specific, so i’m just assuming based on your comment above that you are looking for to have all data displayed for goals (including the subdomains) within the parent domain? However you are able to track global goals within the parent domain profile if you have customised your parent domain filters to append the hostname to your request URI, you should be able to track goals across all domains for example:

thankyou.asp is the confirmation page you wish to track, and the parent domain profile has the filter for the hostname, it will track goal data from say blog.example.com/thankyou.asp in the parent profile. Only catch is, you will need to be very careful with the goal setup if you are using goal funnels.

Ahh, regular expressions, boy those give my brain a hard time sometimes. Have you tried adding the “www” to the filter pattern, to specify the entire hostname for the parent domain?

]]> By: Amy Ganderson http://brettpringle.com/analytics/google-analytics-creating-multiple-goals/#comment-3645 Amy Ganderson Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:48:56 +0000 http://brettpringle.com/?p=117#comment-3645 I have set up one account with multiple profiles, so I can see both the traffic to our overall site and the individual subdomains broken out separately. I'd like to see my goals be calculated the same way. All in one account - with goals in both the global profile and broken out in each sub domain profile. Currently I only see completed goal data coming through my profile with the sub domain only (not the global profile). Can a goal be tracked in only one place? Also, how would I set up a separate filter to track the data from my main domain (example.org)? I tested using: filter type "Custom filter" Include Filter Field "Hostname" Filter Pattern "example\.org" The test brought in data from everything in my global account, include all of my subdomains like: blog.example.org, my.example.org, and example.org. I'd like to see only example.org without including blog.example.org, my.example.org, etc. How should I rework the filter to accommodate this? I have set up one account with multiple profiles, so I can see both the traffic to our overall site and the individual subdomains broken out separately.
I’d like to see my goals be calculated the same way. All in one account – with goals in both the global profile and broken out in each sub domain profile. Currently I only see completed goal data coming through my profile with the sub domain only (not the global profile). Can a goal be tracked in only one place?

Also, how would I set up a separate filter to track the data from my main domain (example.org)?
I tested using:
filter type “Custom filter”
Include
Filter Field “Hostname”
Filter Pattern “example\.org”

The test brought in data from everything in my global account, include all of my subdomains like: blog.example.org, my.example.org, and example.org. I’d like to see only example.org without including blog.example.org, my.example.org, etc. How should I rework the filter to accommodate this?

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