SEF Advance incompatible with Google Analytics site search tracking?
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12 years 1 month ago #6768
by BillyS
Paul - That's an outdated version of 1.5, and you posted the site name too. You should consider upgrading immediately to 1.5.26.
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12 years 1 month ago #6771
by ptiemann
Saka,
Yes it's in the URL but it needs to be a query string argument for Google Analytics to pick it off for site search analytics. You specify in the GA settings what the query string key is. For example the s in this querystring ?s=scroller. With the current urls, GA tracks every search term as a different page view so there is no way to aggregate the data.
Joomla tracks search terms it but without the associated analytics such as what region the user is from, and without the site tracking. For certain search terms, I want to know how many users navigated to the contact page or if they gave up.
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Paul
Yes it's in the URL but it needs to be a query string argument for Google Analytics to pick it off for site search analytics. You specify in the GA settings what the query string key is. For example the s in this querystring ?s=scroller. With the current urls, GA tracks every search term as a different page view so there is no way to aggregate the data.
Joomla tracks search terms it but without the associated analytics such as what region the user is from, and without the site tracking. For certain search terms, I want to know how many users navigated to the contact page or if they gave up.
Thanks,
Paul
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12 years 1 month ago #6772
by ptiemann
BillyS,
Thanks for the heads up. I'll let them know we should update.
Paul
Thanks for the heads up. I'll let them know we should update.
Paul
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12 years 1 month ago #6773
by Saka
Emir Sakic
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@ptiemann: OK, in SEF Advance for Joomla 2.5 it is in the query string.
I can change it for 1.5 version too although 1.5 is no longer supported.
I can change it for 1.5 version too although 1.5 is no longer supported.
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12 years 3 weeks ago #6803
by ptiemann
Saka,
How is the updated version coming?
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Paul
How is the updated version coming?
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Paul
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