Is it possible to use cross-domain tracking to track a goal across 2 seperate sites on 2 different domains?
I have 2 different domains with unique opt-in forms and need to be able to track a goal if a user signs up on either site 1 or site 2.
Both sites link to each other through the nav.
A user will reach site 1 through a PPC ad but if they don't convert on site 1 but instead convert on site 2, I would still like to associate that conversion with the same campaign.
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I have the following scenario:
Website A contains product description and links to the booking website B where the user places his order.
I need to track conversions placed on the website B and have them displayed in the Google Analytics account of the website A (which I controll). Website A is owned by me, website B is a 3rd party website but I can have their webmaster insert tags in their GTM.
Both websites use GTM for analytics tracking code.
So far I have cross domain tracking setup.
Website A has following setup:
Cookie-Domain: auto
allowLinker: true
autoLinkDomains contains domain of the website B
Website B has following setup:
Cookie-Domain: auto
allowLinker: true
autoLinkDomains contains domain of the website A
In GA account of the website A I have added the domain of the website B to the referral exclusion list.
So far good, the links on the website A are being decorated with the linker parameters so the website be receives the client ID.
Now comes the problem part: I didn't find any explanation of how I should now report the conversions which are done on the website B to the google Analytics account of the Website A. I only want to report the conversions for which the Website A accounts because the Website B has many other traffic sources!
How can this be achieved? As said I can have webmaster of the website B to configure their GTM tags accordingly when I know what to configure there.
The same GA tracker ID must be used for A and B sites. That is you should add tracker from your site A to site B. Or create the new one.
Settings
autoLinkDomains must contain both domains comma separated. cookieDomain variable must be set to auto. Both domains needs to be added to referral exclusion list. For sure test your cross-domain linking.
Report in GA
Try to create segment: include sessions where Hostname equals to domain of site A. And then apply this segment on report contains any dimension and conversions (on site B).
I have two websites (different domains) and I want to know how many unique users are visiting both sites. The best result would be:
number of unique visitors
on website A
on website B
on website A and B
The websites have their own GA tracking ID. Do I have to implement the cross domain tracking?
Yes cross domain tracking is made for exactly the same purpose.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034342?hl=en
I have 4 domains all pointed to a single WP website and i want to know which domain is getting the most traffic. how can i segregate the traffic/domain in google analytics? FYI im using "monster insights" plugin for WP.
In short: A good solution would be to create a tracking URL for each of the 4 domains. Then, instead of pointing your domains to your "single website", you point each one of then to the created "tracking URL". That way you will be able to check the traffic coming as referrals in your google analytics reports.
Create your tracking url here
I recommend you use:
Website URL = http://single-website.com (Where all 4 domains are being redirected)
Campaign Source = website-name-1 (Change this name with the name of your 4 domains each time)
Campaign Medium = "Domains" (Or the name you prefer)
Campaign Name = "Redirect" (Or the name you prefer)
You can use the remaining fields, but I would only use these ones.
Result Example for domain 1:
http://single-website.com/?utm_source=website-number-1&utm_medium=domains&utm_campaign=redirect
Do the same for the remaining domains
I have a website with 2 domains. I am trying to track the domains separately. I have both domains inside the same GA account - each domain has a filter applied to it to exclude the other's domain (both with and without the www). It looks like the domains are still being tracked together. How would I go about separating these 2 for different results?
Thanks!
What you're doing now is sending all the traffic to one account (say, UA-XXXX-1), and then using filters to separate them out. This is an imperfect solution, since filters have odd session-related quirks that make them less than ideal for tracking completely separate domains.
To completely separate the results, you need to create separate new web properties within your Google Analytics accounts , so that instead of tracking the second domain on UA-XXXX-1 and filtering, to send the data to UA-XXXX-2. It will roll up in the same area of your analytics account, but it will totally separate and segment the data.
You can read more about the organizational concepts here at this excellent Google Analytics Help Center walkthrough.
To set this up, you'll setup a new profile within the account and select "Add a profile for a new domain" as your option. There's a detailed walk through here.
We have a dozen or so sites, as well as the occasional subdomains so:
example.com
example.co.uk
us.example.com
etc
We have been using separate GA codes for each site. This works fine, but it means that adding a new site means getting a new code and we can't tell overall stats (e.g. how many people have visited all sites etc). If we went the one code route and set up separate profiles for each domain/subdomain:
1) Should we use _setDomainName("none") or _setDomainName("www.example.com") and _setDomainName("www.example.co.uk") etc
2) Will each domain profile treat the other domains as separate (e.g. will we tell on example.co.uk how many people visited from example.com and completed goals etc)
3) Are there any disadvantages to this method.
This post from the Google Analytics blog details how to set up a GA account for each site, and an overall 'rollup' account which sits on top - this will let you give separate GA admin control for each site, where you can dig deep into each site's account, and show cross-site referrals, and the rollup will give overall numbers (but I don't think it's going to report on unique visitors across the collection of sites).
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/09/advanced-structure-your-account-with.html