How to setup goal funnel for cross domain?

[bigbang2000]

Hi everybody, help me pls!

I want to setup goal funnel in urchin 6. But this involves cross
domain as we have multiple websites and they link to each other.

for example, In step 1, I want to define it as www.site1.com
and in step 2, it is www.site2.com
in step 3, it is www.site1.com/somepage.html

Is this possible? if not, how should I do the funnel tracking for
multiple domain?

Many thanks beforehand!

David

[Jeremy Aube]

Hi David,

Before you can set up a funnel that crosses domains, you need to have
cross-domain tracking properly implemented. See the following:

http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=74957

There are a lot of things I don't like about the recommended
instructions for multiple domain tracking, but the above will do.
There's also a link from there to the ga.js version of multiple domain
tracking if you need that.

Step #4 is particularly important to you as you'll need a way to
differentiate between pages with the same name on both domains. You
may, however, want to use the version of the filter given here
instead:

https://secure.urchin.com/helpwiki/en/How_do_I_track_all_the_subdomains_for_my_site_in_one_profile%3F

Then you can set up your goal this way:

Goal Web Address: /www\.site1\.com/somepage\.html
Step 1: /www\.site1\.com/
Step 2: /www\.site2\.com/

Have steps 1 and 2 be so general kind of worries me. Your Defined
Funnel Navigation report is likely to look rather strange. You might
be better off simply setting the goal URL to the page on Site 1 and
use the Reverse Goal Path report to see how visitors made it to that
page. Also, there may be a better way altogether to accomplish this if
we knew what your intent was in tracking entire domains as steps.

Jeremy Aube
http://www.roirevolution.com/urchin

[bigbang2000]

That's quite helpful, thank you so much Jeremy.

David

On Dec 3, 2:18 pm, Jeremy Aube <ja...@roirevolution.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Before you can set up a funnel that crosses domains, you need to have
> cross-domain tracking properly implemented. See the following:
>
> http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=74957
>
> There are a lot of things I don't like about the recommended
> instructions for multiple domain tracking, but the above will do.
> There's also a link from there to the ga.js version of multiple domain
> tracking if you need that.
>
> Step #4 is particularly important to you as you'll need a way to
> differentiate between pages with the same name on both domains. You
> may, however, want to use the version of the filter given here
> instead:
>

> https://secure.urchin.com/helpwiki/en/How_do_I_track_all_the_subdomai...

>
> Then you can set up your goal this way:
>
> Goal Web Address: /www\.site1\.com/somepage\.html
> Step 1: /www\.site1\.com/
> Step 2: /www\.site2\.com/
>
> Have steps 1 and 2 be so general kind of worries me. Your Defined
> Funnel Navigation report is likely to look rather strange. You might
> be better off simply setting the goal URL to the page on Site 1 and
> use the Reverse Goal Path report to see how visitors made it to that
> page. Also, there may be a better way altogether to accomplish this if
> we knew what your intent was in tracking entire domains as steps.
>

> Jeremy Aubehttp://www.roirevolution.com/urchin

>
> On Dec 2, 1:24 pm, bigbang2000 <bigbang2...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi everybody, help me pls!
>
> > I want to setup goal funnel in urchin 6. But this involves cross
> > domain as we have multiple websites and they link to each other.
>
> > for example, In step 1, I want to define it aswww.site1.com
> > and in step 2,  it iswww.site2.com
> > in step 3, it iswww.site1.com/somepage.html
>
> > Is this possible?  if not, how should I do the funnel tracking for
> > multiple domain?
>
> > Many thanks beforehand!
>

> > David- Hide quoted text -
>
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