Comments on: Google Analytics Internal Campaign Tracking http://www.seoslap.com/index.php/google-analytics-internal-campaign-tracking/ Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing, and SEO News Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:44:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: admin http://www.seoslap.com/index.php/google-analytics-internal-campaign-tracking/#comment-9698 admin Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:27:22 +0000 http://www.seoslap.com/index.php/google-analytics-internal-campaign-tracking/#comment-9698 You don't need to worry about search engines indexing duplicate copies in most cases. However, I have seen Yahoo index some of the tagged links but those were from third party content ads. One thing to note about this method is that it will overwrite the visitors original source so you have to be careful about how you use this. Another method that is very useful is the user defined segmentation. This is when you set a JavaScript variable using the following code. <script type="text/javascript"> pageTracker._setVar("segmentation name"); </script> This will allow you to segment by this user group throughout Google Analytics. The main way to access this feature is by going to Visitors >> User Defined. You don’t need to worry about search engines indexing duplicate copies in most cases. However, I have seen Yahoo index some of the tagged links but those were from third party content ads. One thing to note about this method is that it will overwrite the visitors original source so you have to be careful about how you use this.

Another method that is very useful is the user defined segmentation. This is when you set a JavaScript variable using the following code.

This will allow you to segment by this user group throughout Google Analytics. The main way to access this feature is by going to Visitors >> User Defined.

]]> By: Alan Jay http://www.seoslap.com/index.php/google-analytics-internal-campaign-tracking/#comment-9426 Alan Jay Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:40:42 +0000 http://www.seoslap.com/index.php/google-analytics-internal-campaign-tracking/#comment-9426 Hi Brad, Interesting thought. I have a similar issue in that we are looking to see how people interact with some of our pages and we were thinking how to retag our pages to allow tracking of access. Manually tagging parts of the site seemed easy but one of my collegues was worried that search engines will see the new URLs and add a second copy of a result page to their index. Is this an issue we should be worried about? I do however like your coding of the solution above as very neat and simple - how did it work out :) Hi Brad,

Interesting thought. I have a similar issue in that we are looking to see how people interact with some of our pages and we were thinking how to retag our pages to allow tracking of access. Manually tagging parts of the site seemed easy but one of my collegues was worried that search engines will see the new URLs and add a second copy of a result page to their index. Is this an issue we should be worried about?

I do however like your coding of the solution above as very neat and simple - how did it work out :)

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