I have a situation where a client needs a ton of segmentation and I had an idea to manually tag internal links with campaign names for the internal tracking.   However, I don’t know whether when a visitor clicks on these if they will be tracked as a new visit because the campaign tracking would probably overwrite the utmz cookie but I don’t know how it will treat the other cookies.  I think it would not count the visitor as new but would just segment the visitors who click on the link into that campaign so I could view the activity, goals, and ecommerce of just the visitors who clicked on that internal link.   I am thinking it may be a way around the limited single user defined variable that we currently have.  To test this theory, I am providing a link here that is manually tagged and I will be accessing my site through an obscure method so I can isolate it and then view the results.  So if you want to take part, go ahead and click on the link.

Thanks,

Brad Henry

As many of you already know my company sent me and some other folks to the WebmasterWorld Conference in Las Vegas this year.   It was a good time and the sessions were good even it not for a ton of new useful information but to confirm some of my current strategies.   I did pick up a couple little things that I brought back with me to test and I am in process of determining if I think they are viable ideas or not.

I stayed at the New York New York hotel which was very nice.  It was on the other end of the strip so it took me a while to get to the convention center but that was not that big of a deal.   I am not really a big gambler but it was fun to watch everyone I was with gamble and have a good time.   One of the people I was with won a couple hundred dollars which was cool to see.  I did try some of the slots and electronic blackjack though which was fun.  I think I lost a total of $20 over the week so as you can tell I don’t really gamble.

I am pretty sure that I got pick pocketed while out there but nobody believes me because they must have put my wallet back in my pocket after taking my cash.  I lost $40 that way.

The last session of the conference which was PubCon was where everyone met in a pub for drinks and fingerfood.  It was a great time, probably my favorite session but I ate some of the shrimp rolls which made me violently ill on the plane ride home.  Totally not worth it.     I was sick for about 4 days and still scared to eat anything seafood related.    My advice.. Don’t eat the shrimp in Vegas.   I would curious to know if anyone else got really sick as well.

Now I am playing catchup at work and mostly caught up now thank God.  The year is close to over and 2008 is looking like it is going to be a busy one.  I have been very bad about updating this blog but hope to be a little more consistent in the future.   Well that’s about it for now.  If you have any questions, let me know.

Thanks,

Brad Henry