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Google Analytics Goal Pages Triggering Multiple Times

by Apollo-Articles
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I run analytics for a College, I've set-up conversion goals to trigger when a user visits:

(Beings with)

/application-thanks-CO

After going through the previous funnel:

/application-form

The application thanks have custom parameters which link up to individual applications (this lets me track an individual down from each application submitted), so the actual goal url might look like

/application-thanks-CO?sid=11359

However! My problem is that sometimes Analytics is triggering multiple goal completions per thank-you page i.e.:

/application-thanks-CO?sid=11359 Goal completions: 3

This might be happening from a user going back and forth from the same page, a social media widget or even refreshing however what I do know is that since each thank-you page with custom parameters (as above) can only be based on one application goal completions more than 1 are simply incorrect.

How can I stop this from happening?
•Is there anywhere in Google Analytics I can set-up so goal locations so that they can only be 'Triggered' once?

Many thanks!

Sam
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael71
    Write a cookie when user gets to the site.

    If user does not have the cookie use GA to track, else do not use GA.
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  • Profile picture of the author mralexanderca
    Hi,

    GA is fairly good with this because they track users per unique session.

    The other solution that you need to check is the setting of the url, there are few variations:

    - exact match
    - header match (if i remember correctly)
    - regular expression

    check the documentation, they provide great details, on the different types of URL variations and it will accommodate your needs.

    I have run these experiences many times and it worked.

    best of luck.
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