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Google Analytics Issue

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  • 27-08-2009 6:05pm
    #1
    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭


    I’ve inherited a bit of an issue here with Google Analytics and the way a few sites were set up in it. Basically, when a bunch of sites were added to GA they were all created as sub-profiles of one account whereas ideally we’d like them to each be their own accounts.

    To try and explain it a bit better, imagine you’ve just logged into GA and you see a list of all accounts you have access to. Theres an account there called www.example.com and within that there are profiles for 13 domains that are completely and utterly unrelated to each other yet they’re all grouped in the one account and all their tracking codes are sequential in that they appear as UA-0000000-1, UA-0000000-2, ..., UA-0000000-13. In short it’s a complete mess.

    Is there any way to fix this and get each domain set up as its own account without losing all the info gathered?

    thanks.


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    zAbbo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    Short answer: No, you can't move profiles to different accounts

    But your setup isn't a complete mess and would be quite common, although possible difficult if each profile requires different access levels

    Here's some good info http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/02/monday-back-to-basics-accounts-vs.html


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    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Sorry to hijack the thread a bit but I'm getting a problem with google analytics not showing any traffic info at all. I set it up yesterday for our business site and the tracker thing says receiving data but absolutely no data is showing...

    I've 'googled' this issue like hell and haven't found a solution that works.

    Do I just have to wait a while before it starts working or what?


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    zAbbo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    Takes about 2-3 hours to start seeing some data, assuming your website is generating traffic.

    All answers would point to incorrect implementation, wanna post the URL or PM it to me?


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    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Yea I went through all the possible implementation probs. Currently it's in the <head> part of the page because some poster on google said try putting it there instead of the body.

    The url is www.courtneyhr.ie. Thanks.


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    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Thanks zAbbo thats pretty much what I was expecting although I'd hoped I'd be able to move them. At least from reading that link we're not the only people dealing with it so hopefully google will come up with a solution at some point.


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    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Just giving this a quick bump to ask if anyones had any experience with tracking a single site from multiple GA accounts? A few sites say its possible (http://robertssemsystem.com/index.php/website_analytics/analytics_adwords/tracking_page_in_multiple_g_anlaytics_accts/) but then some others say it can cause problems and is not a supported or recommended way of doing things. Just wondering what you lot think about it.

    thanks.


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    RedCardinal
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭RedCardinal


    JohnK wrote: »
    Just giving this a quick bump to ask if anyones had any experience with tracking a single site from multiple GA accounts? A few sites say its possible (http://robertssemsystem.com/index.php/website_analytics/analytics_adwords/tracking_page_in_multiple_g_anlaytics_accts/) but then some others say it can cause problems and is not a supported or recommended way of doing things. Just wondering what you lot think about it.

    thanks.

    Yep - this is possible. But it's not respective. It will only start tracking from the time you make the changes.

    Basically you add a second tracker call to your JS, similar to: 
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
      var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
      document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
      try {
        var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxx-x");
        var pageTracker2 = _gat._getTracker("UA-yyyyyy-y");
        pageTracker._trackPageview();
        pageTracker2._trackPageview();
      }
      catch(err) {}
    </script>
    This will then track everything to 2 separate accounts. But it wont let you share any info between accounts (if you get me), and as I mentioned it's not retrospective.

    Hope this helps


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    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Thanks RedCardinal :)

    Yeah I'd guessed it wouldnt allow data sharing but my way of thinking was if we could track on two accounts for a couple of months then we could stop tracking on the the old account so it would just mean that for the properly set up account we'd have some historical data rather than it just showing up as if its a new site entirely.

    Thanks again!


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