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    • Martijn_Scheijbeler
      Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

      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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      • Visiblics
        Visiblics @Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

        Hi Marjin,

        Please find attached the screen shot.

        Thanks,

        MO0Yu

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        • svenhalling
          svenhalling @Olaf last edited by

          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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          • Olaf
            Olaf @svenhalling last edited by

            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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            • svenhalling
              svenhalling @Olaf last edited by

              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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              • Olaf
                Olaf @svenhalling last edited by

                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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                • svenhalling
                  svenhalling @Olaf last edited by

                  OK I'll try that, cheers!

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                  • seo.owl
                    seo.owl last edited by

                    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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                    • JLandis
                      JLandis @seo.owl last edited by

                      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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                      • MetricMarketing
                        MetricMarketing @seo.owl last edited by

                        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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