Goals from subdomain - conversion url is on the main domain?

[esprague]

Hello,

I have analytics setup tracking

mydomain.com
sub.mydomain.com

mydomain.com is setup to track goals, which is a regular expression match. Anytime anyone visits any page in mydomain.com/Referrals/ it counts it as a goal.

The problem comes when trying to do the same for the subdomain. I want to track how many goals were completed from sub.mydomain.com but the goal url is the same as the main domain, mydomain.com/Referrals/. So when someone is on sub.mydomain.com, and clicks on a link like mydomain.com/Referrals/link.html, it should count it as a goal on sub.mydomain.com.

I hope I explained that clearly, please ask if it doesn't make sense. Anyone have any advice?

Greatly appreciated.

[esprague]

Hello, has anyone seen this and able to offer any help? Thanks!

[still]

Do you have separate profiles for your domain and subdomain?
How many entry points into your goal are there?

You could always create a rollup profile, create a custom filter to append the hostname to the URI and set up your funnels/goals accordingly.

[esprague]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I have separate profiles on the same account and there are many entry points to the goal - hundreds of different links and pages. Basically, anytime the user ends up at any page in the mydomain.com/Referrals/ directory it is counted as a goal.

Right now the setup looks like:

GA Account
Profile 1 - mydomain.com
Profile 2 - sub.mydomain.com

Do you have any advice/links/documentation on how to move forward with your suggestion?

[still]

In your GA tracker, set it up something like the below example. (pageload speed tracking is optional :P ).
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_gaq.push(
['main._setAccount', 'UA-#*$!#*$!'],
['main._setDomainName', 'none'],
['main._trackPageview'],
['main._trackPageLoadTime'],
['rollup._setAccount', 'UA-#*$!#*$!'],
['rollup._setDomainName', 'none'],
['rollup._setAllowLinker', true],
['rollup._trackPageview'],
['rollup._trackPageLoadTime']);

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To append hostnames to URIs in your rollup profile, just create an advanced filter.

Field A - Hostname : (.*)
Field B - Request URI : (.*)
Output - $A1$B1

Good luck.

[zefroth]

Do both the profiles have the same web property IDs (UA-#*$!XX-YY)? In other words, have you implemented sub-domain tracking between the sub-domains?

If yes, there might be a simpler way to do this.

[esprague]

"Do both the profiles have the same web property IDs (UA-#*$!XX-YY)? In other words, have you implemented sub-domain tracking between the sub-domains?

If yes, there might be a simpler way to do this. "

They did not but I just setup a new profile which allows for subdomain tracking and added to the main and sub domain.

Are you able to expand on the simpler way to do this?

Thanks