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Google Analytics: Manually trigger a goal
I basically have 2 pages different pages that need to be tracked as the same goal, so I'm looking for a way to get manually trigger the goal whenever the page is loaded.
I'm not sure if this can be done with Google Analytics, since I haven't been able to find any references to it
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Certainly. It's a common practice for many ecommerce platforms where the URL is the same for all pages in the checkout process. So they need a way to track each page individually.
Use an onload in the body tag to call pageTracker:
PHP Code:<body onload="pageTracker._setVar('goalnamehere');">
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Isn't setVar() for segmentation?
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To be honest I don't know the answer to that or to say that it is exclusively for segmentation. Hopefully someone else will jump in with an answer.
I use "pageTracker._setVar" heavily for tracking outbound links where there is nothing else to trigger, ie: no trackable landing page. Seems like this would be a similar use for it because OP needs to track two individual pages as one in a way.
Another way (probably a better way) to possibly track these two pages as one would be to use a regular expression goal and write the regex to track:
/(page1|page2).html
Which should trigger the goal when either page1.html or page2.html is accessed. I haven't tested this but looks like it should work.
Do we have any GA guru's that can chime in?
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Maybe I could have each of the "goal pages" create a virtual pageview by using pageTracker._trackPageview() and then set that page up as a goal.
I think it will work in almost the same way as with the regular expression you suggested, but be easier for me extend to include more pages in the goal, since I won't have to go back and edit it.
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The reason I'm a bit skeptical about using pageTracker._setVar() is that I have read that it uses a cookie that can only store 1 value.
So if I assign 2 or more labels to a visitor fx. setVar('clicked-full-tilt-referral-link') and setVar('clicked-pokerstars-referral-link') only the first of them will be used in the current session, and the last one set will be used in any future session.
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@cprpoker: I think that using regexp is indeed the way to go here. The code you suggested seems valid to me.
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use the regex, that's what i do, it tracks perfectly. no need to use the page tracker function, it will just goof up your stats a bit.
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