How to use G Analytics trackPageview correctly?

[Tonearm]

Since all of my funnel and goal pages have the same URL, I need to use _trackPageview as described here:

[google.com...]

Should I just add the following block after the main tracking code:

<script>
pageTracker._trackPageview("/funnel_G1/step1.html")
</script>

I've never used javascript before so I'm confused.

[BradleyT]

<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/funnel_G1/step1.html');" href="http://www.example.com/step1.html">Proceed to step 1</a>

[Tonearm]

Thanks BradleyT. Is there any way I could do it without an onclick or similar function. I'd just like to have it register when the page loads.

[BradleyT]

You should be able to put it somewhere on the page where an event fires and it would have the same effect. Onclick= is just a JS event that says when this object (URL) is clicked, call this function.

So if you called it in onload or in the head it would fire that function also. The only downside with that is it could fire many times if someone refreshes the page a lot - it seems like people like to refresh pages for whatever reason.