Is there any way to track index page with a channel?

[suzie250]

On one site all folder indexes are set to index.php and all links are directed to folder/.

All of them are succesfully tracked with a url channel using example.com/folder/index.php

I recently moved one of these folders to its own domain where I have a redirect in place for example.com/index.php to example.com/

I cannot get a channel to track the index.php page like I can with the folders from the other site.

A channel for example.com/ will track everything for the whole site. Is there any way around this?

Thanks,
Suzie

[wheelie34]

Hi Suzie

Just setup a custom channel for individual pages or individual ad units

[21_blue]

Suzie, you need the page name in your channel - ie example.com/index.php

If that doesn't work, try example.com/index.html in the channel (even though your page is index.php)

[suzie250]

I tried naming the channel with index.html and it worked.

wow, that's just weird.

Thanks

[21_blue]

It's an undocumented feature.

We found that /index.htm and /index.html channels report the same statistics (I've never tried index.php). Presumably such channels combine all calls to the domain home page (example.com, example.com/, example.com/index.html).

However, other versions of the home page (home.htm, home.html) seem to require their own channel. We discovered this because we have some archive pages left from when we migrated servers - from one that defaulted to home.html, to one that used index.html.

I do wonder if someone using a non-standard home page name could be missing data in their channels because of this. Google ought to put something on their support pages about how home pages are tracked using channels.