Google Analytics Site Search to new sub-domain
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Hi Mozzers,
I'm setting up Google's Site Search on a website. However this isn't for search terms, this will be for people filling in a form and using the POST action to land on a results page. This is similar to what is outlined at http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1012264 ('<a class="zippy zippy-collapse">Setting Up Site Search for POST-Based Search Engines').</a>
However my approach is different as my results appear on a sub-domain of the top level domain. Eg..
- user is on www.domain.com/page.php
- user fills in form
- submits
- user gets taken to results.domain.com/results.php
The issue is with the suggested code provided by Google as copied below..
Firstly, I don't use query strings on my results page so I would have to create an artificial page which shouldn't be a problem. But what I don't know is how the tracking will work across a sub-domain without the _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.domain.com']); code. Can this be added in? Can I also add Custom Variables?
Does anyone have experience of using Site Search across a sub-domain perhaps to track quote form values?
Many thanks!
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Don't know if you still need help with this, but here goes...
The main problem is that article you reference is showing out of date Google Analytics tracking code. The _setDomainName piece that you reference is from the asynchronous version of the tracking code. The code shown in the article is from the previous version of the GA tracking code. If you try to mix code from the two different versions, it won't work.
That article is basically just describing how to create a virtual page view that includes the search term the user has searched for. With the asynchronous code, it would look like:
You would need to update the code above with your own UA ID, domain and replace the 'SearchTerm' placeholder programmatically with whatever the user entered.
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