Cross Domain Goal Tracking in Google Analytics

[The_Grunt]

howdee,

Not sure if there is a solution to this but would be interested in finding out.
A client has a website www.example.com , which gives the option of an email signup. So you enter you email address on www.example.com and click "submit". You then get taken to [visitor.example.com...] for example, and you tick some preference boxes, then get taken to a confirmation URL page with http;//visitor.example.com

Is there any way of setting up a goal and tracking this?
Goals can't start on one domain and go to another, can they?

I was going to send the clients instructions on cross domain tracking from here:

[google.com...]

But I'm not sure if it's the right way to go.....

[edited by: engine at 12:06 pm (utc) on Mar 22, 2010]
[edit reason] Please use example.com [/edit]

[onlineleben]

make sure that you have the same analytics code on all pages involved. it works cross domain (at least i have it working like that with a merchants 'thanks you' page)

[The_Grunt]

cheers,

only thing is, once they complete email signup, they don't go back to www.example.com

[onlineleben]

you want to track the goal, not the total behaviour.
having the tracking code on the thank-you page presented when the email signup is completed, should be enough.

[The_Grunt]

yeah, I have the conversion code on that page alright.

thanks all for your replies so far