Regular Expressions in Google Analytics
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Hi All
I've been struggling to create a regular expression for a Google Analytics goal step that would match the following:
^/specifictextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring/
^/specifictextstring/anytextstring/However I don't want it to match any URLs that end with:
/anytextstring**_**phonecall or /phonecall, for example:
/specifictextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring**phonecall
/specifictextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring**phonecall
/specifictextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring/phonecall
/specifictextstring/anytextstring/phonecallDoes anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance for all contributions.
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You have a few choices, none of them include setting a goal like you want. I can't see any way to do it they way you want.
Option 1: Create profile that disallows the phonecall URLs and set the goal in that profile.
Option 2: Create a custom segment that removes the phonecall URLs from your dataset.
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I'm no GA guru, but how about just using advanced filters? You can use a custom filter to exclude the requested uri pattern.
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If you could use negative lookahead the below would work for the goal step regular expression:
/(something|somethings)/(?!.phonecall).
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Thanks for the response Kevin. The issue I am having is that Google Analytics does not allow negative lookahead to be used which would be the easiest approach to ensuring none of the following our matched:
/specifictextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring**phonecall
/specifictextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring**phonecall
/specifictextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring/phonecall
/specifictextstring/anytextstring/phonecallThanks
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I'm sure you've found this already but I'll post for reference: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034324?hl=en
And you can check out some examples here: http://www.cheatography.com/jay-taylor/cheat-sheets/google-analytics-regular-expressions/
So try ^/specifictextstring/(.*) for your ^/specifictextstring/anytextstring/anytextstring/
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