Track subdomain in analytics
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Hi,
Our jobs section has recently been moved on to a subdomain https://jobs.ourwebsite.co.uk/home.html which is handled by a third party. Our analytics for the jobs section was lost as no code was added to the pages. Previously it was part of the main site.
How do I track it as a subdomain so that it appears to be part of our main site?
We have the old GA and universal GA code on the site
Thanks
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Thanks Hutch
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You would need to use a series of filters and/or regular expressions to draw out only your job pages based on the domain and then place information into the URI. Your filters can be found in the admin section under your view. It takes a good amount of testing to get filters like this right, and a small mistake can destroy a lot of data so make sure not to use your main account and instead create a testing account to fine tune this.
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Thanks.
How do you set up the find and replace filter?
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Using universal is it not hard to, you can just place the code onto the 3rd party site. To make it easy to look at you will want to make a find and replace filter to target only the traffic to your 3rd party site and change the URI so that it will make more sense when looking at it (if you do not then it will see your home page and the main page of the jobs site as just "/"). Make sure that you set up a test profile for your filters so that you do not cause problems with your data. This is the more complex way of looking at it, if you only care how many people click off to your jobs section and not how they interact with it you can place event tracking code onto any link that goes to the job section.
All of this is much easier if you use Google's Tag Manager as the cross domain linking or adding custom event calls become even easier to implement.
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Hi, I think the 3rd party can add code.
Our main site currently has both old and universal code
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Does your 3rd party service have the ability to add GA code to include the necessary cross domain tracking code or does it use universal analytics?
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Thanks, but still unsure. I've also read
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingSite
http://www.ericmobley.net/guide-to-tracking-multiple-subdomains-in-google-analytics/
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Hi!
There was an article about this on Moz main blog: http://moz.com/blog/cross-domain-subdomain-tracking-in-google-analytics
Maybe it will be helpful for you.
Gr., Keszi
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