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Are you screwing up your web stats because you don't understand this?

by flordan
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If you use google analytics and you have multiple domains that are all related and a blog as well, such as:

domain1 . com
domain2 . com
domain1blog . com

Here's the scenario where your stats are not right.

If you get a person coming to your site (let's say its about golf) from searching for "beginner golf clubs" and they land on your blog, sign up for your newsletter.

A few days later, when you followup with them and send them to domain1 . com and they buy your product, you will not see that the orginal referrer was the keyword "beginner golf clubs" - you will see it either as "direct" with no keyword or you may even see your own blog as the referrer.

This doesn't help you.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
#screwing #stats #understand #web
  • Profile picture of the author xiaophil
    Cross-Domain Tracking
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    • Profile picture of the author flordan
      Yes, they have a few different pages on this.

      The code you pointed to is different than the code google generates for you:

      The code you pointed to would be this:
      _setDomainName("none");
      _setAllowLinker(enable);
      _setAllowHash("false");

      Google generates this:

      pageTracker._setDomainName("none");
      pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true);
      pageTracker._trackPageview();
      } catch(err) {}</script>

      Do you know what the difference is?

      And, I also know you have to add some code to your links and forms that go between domains.
      So are you saying that to keep the original referrer and original keyword all I have to do is add the "special" code to all my related domains and add the special code on the end of the links between domains?

      And what about the ecommerce thank you page?

      Do I just pick 1 "parent profile" (such as domain1 . com) and use this code for the sales (as a goal on the thank you page) that occurs between all the related domains
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