currently we have a company blog that runs via blog.domain.com. Also we have our corporate site (domain.com) that is our "selling" site. The blog is about tutorials, open source stuff, totally non profit.
We want to examine if the blog has value to our business. Branding and so on... Will customers visit our blog, are users from our blog more likely to buy sth and so on.
Both Domains are within the same Google Analytics Account but as separate properties. Is it somehow possible?
I dont want to use something with Referal as solution since it just might be that someone visits our blog and returns after some week via an ad.
You cant analyse Google Analytics data across properties or accounts. Data can only be analyzed within the same property.
This is why its best not to split data between properties but to store everything in the same property when its the same web account. At the very least having one default property with all of the data can also be useful.
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We have a live google classics site that is currently tracked in google analytics. Because there is still work to be done, the team created a copy of our site for internal use, and it seems to be separate from the live site. The copied site isn't just a copied page or template. It's its own entity.
The problem is that Google Analytics combines both sites' data, so the overview data is not representative of the actual usage. I have 2 assumptions.
When the copy was made, it copied all settings including enabling analytics and the Analytics Web Property ID.
Or, someone enabled Analytics for the copy and added the same Analytics Web Property ID
All of this happened before my time, and since I am not an owner, I can't see the settings in 'Manage Site'. To my knowledge though, all the owner has to do is go to Settings -> Manage Site -> Statistics -> No Analytics for the copy site only. My fear is that in doing so, it affects the live copy as well and we disable the Analytics. But that wouldn't make sense considering they are 2 separate sites.
A side question is, when we disable Analytics, does the data already collected disappear, or if we reenable with the same tracking, then the data comes back?
So my question is, how do we get Analytics to stop combining the 2 sites' data? (Disable Analytics and remove the Analytics Web Property ID of the copy?)
Thank you so much!
Teresa
If you look at the analytics data, you can probably filter it by "hostname".
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034823?hl=en
What you would do in this case, you'd create a exclude filter, put in the hostname of the domain that you don't want and the view will prevent data coming in if it has that hostname.
The data won't disappear for the past and will reappear if you remove the filter, but the data for during the time when the filter is active won't be there. Essentially the data won't be collected.
Have setup a WordPress multisite which is using the same GA tracking ID to make things much simpler in our Google Analytics Dashboard (plus there is like a limit of 50 individual IDs you can track with one account I think?).
WP multisite is setup on subdirectories and not subdomains, e.g.
mysite.com.au/sitename1
mysite.com.au/sitename2
Anyway, some of the admin from the sites want access to the Google Analytics for their site. Upon investigating, I found that they would be able to access stats for other sites (besides their own) within the multisite. We definitely do not want this.
Is there a way to limit a GA user account so that they can only view pages within their own site (a fixed subdirectory), for example:
mysite.com.au/sitename1
and not be able to view information from any other site subdirectories? I'm a beginner to Google Analytics and I heard I might be able to setup particular views, goals or campaigns to achieve this.
You can do this with Views (bad thing - each property can just have 25 Views)
You find Views in the right column of the Admin page. Add a new View through the Dropdown. You can now set a filter to this View (/sitename1).
After this click on "User Management" in the View column and give the User you want to have there access.
I own and operate my own Content Management System (CMS) web application targeted at a specific type of customer (schools). Each customer wants to track the traffic to their own website. Of course, I could ask them to each create their own Google Analytics account and then provide me with the tracking ID so that my CMS can embed the correct code onto their pages. But I was wondering if there was a better way ... something more automated, and something that involves less work on their part.
I was thinking that for each customer, I could use the Google Analytics APIs to automatically create a new Property with the appropriate filter and then give the customer "Read & Analyze" permissions for that property. The problem with that is that I'm limited to creating 50 properties under my account.
Any other ideas? I'm just wondering if I'm missing some feature of GA that is specifically designed for this scenario.
Thanks,
Rajeev
Asking each user to create their own analytics account is the correct solution. Then they should just give your cms the id, and then your cms should include the correct analytics javascript code. It's the way all other cms systems supports Google Analytics
I have forum directory on my website. That sub directory is located on http://www.mobilestore.pk/forum I was wondering that how can I track forum traffic only as a separate property in Google Analytics without filtering it from the whole traffic of the website. So I can show the trends of forum to Moderators or Editors.
I don't recommend using a property to break out traffic on the same domain. It's better to use a new view with a filter. Be sure to keep a view that is unfiltered.
If you do decide to use a separate property, you will need to modify the code in all the page templates used in the /forum path to use a different UA tracking ID.
You can add a 2nd tracker for just the forum.
As per Google:
"In some cases you might want to send data to multiple web properties from a single page. This is useful for sites that have multiple owners overseeing sections of a site; each owner could view their own web property."
This exactly fits your scenario
See https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/advanced#multipletrackers
Is good to place google analytics in pages like admistration, article edit page, ... ?
The reason why I use Google Analytics is to give important information to my clients about how their websites are being used. Because of that I wouldnt include the admin area of the website because it doesnt affect their sales or conversions.
By adding code into the admin zone you are inflating the total pageviews. If you really want to track this information then its not a disaster, you would just need to be sure to setup a profile which filters out these urls when making business decisions with your Analytics info.
Technically I think to use Google Analytics it is supposed to be on a free, public website but I guess having some of the pages locked isnt going to get your account closed.
Yes, it keeps stats on how often you or others use admin features. I also suggest that you use Google webmaster tools on them too.