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By: An online customer journey – creating a basic audit trail with Google Analytics | Local Marketing Blog

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:50:57 +0000

[...] Where there are different page URLs for the steps in a goal (for example: … /newsletter-sign-up.html and /newsletter-sign-up/thankyou.html), you can set up goals without a developer/webmaster. This is pretty straight forward. Here is a good video on you tube that takes you through the steps to set up this type of goal. When your goal does involve Javascript & Ajax (i.e. the page URL doesn’t change when the page is submitted) then check this video out that describes how to implement goals on this type of web page builds. [...]

By: Aussie Web Host

Aussie Web Host — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:26:49 +0000

thanks for the info mate, in your video you said you needed to give the virtual page view an extension – but on the last screen you forgot to add it

implementing now with gravity forms for wordpress – will let you know how i go.

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:18:17 +0000

Very helpful

By: ethiers

ethiers — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:33:03 +0000

thank you very much, very useful information

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:12:11 +0000

Thank you – the video on ajax analytics installed for ajax requests helped alot. cheers!

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:06:29 +0000

I’m working on this on one of our client’s site’s and it doesn’t seem to be working.

The idea is, the user clicks a button to get custom directions and google analytics should be able to track that.
I have tested the form myself and it hasn’t recorded any data.

Inside the jquery validation plugin it looks like this:

success:function()
{
//track in google analytics (Goal)
_gaq.push(['_.trackPageview', '/directions complete.html']);
}

thanks! Please feel free to contact me directly!

By: How Google Analytics Helps Online Marketers and Webmasters (Part 1 of 2) | ISSMM

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:40:47 +0000

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By: Windfery

Windfery — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:03:01 +0000

I’m not a fan of using virtual page views because it requires the filter hack to separate these values from true page views.

It is frustrating that Google do not allow native recognition of events in the goal funnel.

By: David Dabney

David Dabney — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:20:24 +0000

Thanks a bunch for this! The video was a nice touch and helpful.

By: ICE Studios

ICE Studios — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:20:26 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to create the video as it’s been a great help and very easy to follow. Much appreciated.

By: 619Cloud

619Cloud — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:45:16 +0000

Jason,

When we tried it, we had problems with URLS without an extension. So, to be safe, it should be very easy for the developer to simply do: /track_tax_calc.php or /track_tax_calc.html

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:48:36 +0000

Hello,

This has been so helpful, but I have a question. I feel like I am very close to being able to track this action. The only problem I am facing is that our developer did not create an extension to the end of the goal:

< a href="calc();" rel="nofollow" >

As you can see, track_tax_calc(1)does not have a extension.

Can I still submit the goal URL as:

/track_tax_calc(1)

Or do I need to get the developer to add an extension for Google to understand this. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Jason

By: Seref CAN

Seref CAN — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:13:03 +0000

Thank you really nice….

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:00:06 +0000

Super useful, thanks for sharing!

By: COMO Group

COMO Group — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:36:11 +0000

The information looks great. But i have a small doubt on setting goal for AJAX pages. Can we use the code
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/sign-up-complete.php']);
with the analytics code instead of having it in the Javascript. will this work fine and track goals if i add in my website.

By: Form builder

Form builder — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:04:03 +0000

Took me time to read all the comments, but I really enjoyed the article. It proved to be Very helpful to me and I am sure to all the commenters here! It’s always nice when you can not only be informed, but also entertained!

- Josh

By: sawan sharma

sawan sharma — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:42:47 +0000

Basically create a GA Goal and then create an advanced segment for it. If you have a unique “thank you page” for the event you want to track then that will be your Goal URL, if the confirmation/thank you message appears in the same page then you have to add JS code (step 1 in the post) to fire a virtual page and use the virtual page as your Goal URL.

By: web techie

web techie — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:33:49 +0000

The topic is an issue I am trying to resolve, but why oh why make a video about it?
10 minutes into downloading the video and I am only half way through watching (I live in South Africa)
Everytime you say Aaaaam or errrm or ummmmm it is more data to download, how about writing yourself a script!

And it took me this long to find out that this video does not resolve my ajax issues. Video does not scan

By: Chris Leone

Chris Leone — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:33:21 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Hopefully Google will allow us to set Event Tracking as a goal or at least offer more information re: Virtual Pageview with async.

By: Bambang Sugiarto

Bambang Sugiarto — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:21:45 +0000

Hi Everybody…

Nice post… btw, I just modified the Google Analytics plugin for WordPress and added the new asynchronous tracking method… Please review my post about Asynchronous Google Analytics plugin for WordPress at http://www.minilibra.com/wordpress/plugins/analytics.html

Cheers
Bambang Sugiarto

By: Wordpress 101 Guide : Enhance the speed of your site with asynchronous google analytics « Wordpress Experts Developers – Wp1stop

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:12:20 +0000

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By: Paolo

Paolo — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:35:34 +0000

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for. I make massive use of “virtual pageviews” mapped to goals, then to AdWords Conversions.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:22:54 +0000

Thank you. This is a huge help. Appreciate it guys.

By: Mark Regan

Mark Regan — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:32:29 +0000

Justin, you’re a savior with this one. I can’t believe there is no explicit syntax example/description within code.google.com explaining how to set a virtual page view. Nice explanation!

By: Carlton

Carlton — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:02:52 +0000

Cheers for the info on the virtual page view using the new GA code.

By: Lecturas de Google Analytics y propuestas de formación | WebAnalytics.ES

Lecturas de Google Analytics y propuestas de formación | WebAnalytics.ES — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:31:26 +0000

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By: Google’s Need for Speed – Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code — Chicago Style SEO

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:06:25 +0000

[...] forms that are submitted by AJAX were no longer being tracked by Analytics. They came up with the solution and even produced a video on how to take care of these problems simply and [...]

By: Ritu

Ritu — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:47:04 +0000

This is really nice..the video was an added help
Thanks!!

By: steve

steve — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:29:52 +0000

Nice work, thank you