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How to track urls with id= ?

         

Lightguy1

4:05 pm on Jul 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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On some of my urls, I would like to see where the users are clicking from. For example, are they coming to my site from ebay, froogle, msn, etc.

So I started to generate my URLS with an ID that I hope to filter.

For example, my url for froogle looks like this:
http://www.example.com/moreinfo.int?itemno=itemnumber&id=froogle

An example of my url that I put in ebay listings look like this:
http://www.example.com/moreinfo.int?itemno=itemnumber&id=ebay

How can I set up my analytics correctly to track how many users click these links and end up on my submitorder page ?

Thanks

[edited by: encyclo at 12:19 am (utc) on July 6, 2008]
[edit reason] switched to example.com [/edit]

Receptional

2:07 pm on Jul 4, 2008 (gmt 0)



The trick is NOT to track "referring url contains ID=" but instead track "Landing (or entry) page contains ID=" Doing the former is not reliable, because plenty of things can prevent the referrer data from reaching your tracking.

A few things though.

a) I wouldn't use "ID". Do something useful like "campaign"
b) We do this, but there is an issue. You may now have duplicate content issues if search engines index the url containing the tracking variable. Now the search engines should work it out... but you would be surprised at how much help they need.

Lightguy1

4:59 pm on Jul 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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OK, so how would I set that up. I created a goal where my page url would be http://www.example.com/moreinfo.int?itemno=*&title=*&id=froogle

I created a goal using this as the first incoming url and the goal would be to hit my order submission page, however nothing is registering. any ideas how to properly implement this

[edited by: Receptional at 4:39 pm (utc) on Aug. 4, 2008]
[edit reason] Examplified [/edit]

Receptional

4:45 pm on Aug 4, 2008 (gmt 0)



Ah. You are using Google Analytics.

Frankly that's a bit of a challenge for me. I try not to use it as much as possible because I just can't get it to bend the way I expect my data by bend!

I could have a look, but maybe someone here knows the answer off pat.

Lightguy1

5:34 pm on Aug 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I pretty much am just trying to track all my data feeds to see if they reach a goal. What other services would you recommend besides GA, it seems to be very buggy