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Track new members with Google Analytics

On a phpBB forum

         

jozomannen

6:56 pm on Feb 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I've just started to use Google Analytics for one of my forums (phpBB). And I would like to set a successfull registration as a goal. The problem is that for setting up a goal, I should just add the URL for the "Thank You"-page, but with phpBB, the "Thank You"-page is /profile.php so that's not going to show correct statistics. Any ideas how I can track members with Google Analytics on a phpBB forum?

rogerd

7:06 pm on Feb 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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You might have to hack the code to go to an intermediate "thank you" page. You could also spawn a popup thank you page (easier to code, IMO), but that might underestimate your success rate due to popup blockers.

jozomannen

8:57 pm on Feb 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I got an idea when you said popup. What about just an empty iframe, will that work? That can't be stopped by popup-blocker, right?

rogerd

9:05 pm on Feb 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Interesting idea... let us know if it works!

jozomannen

9:40 pm on Feb 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I've set it up now, so I will hopefully see if it works within 24 hours. I'll post the results here.

Thank you very much for your help.

jozomannen

3:24 pm on Feb 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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It worked out fine, thanks for the help.