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[_] Analytics and purchase path goal conversion

Daniel Hilton daniel.hilton at gmail.com
Thu May 31 11:08:25 BST 2007 

On 31/05/07, Joel Hughes <jh at jojet.com> wrote:
> Hi [_],
> I need to setup Analytics funnel analysis on a client's purchase path.
>
> Many of the steps of the purchase path are handled by the same URL so I
> will need to follow these instructions to make the magic happen:
>
> http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=27288
>
> I'm a bit confused where is says this though:
> <snip>
> Important: if your pages include a call to urchinTracker(), utmLinker(),
> utmSetTrans() or utmLinkPost(), your Analytics tracking code must be
> placed in your HTML code above any of these calls. In these cases the
> tracking code can be placed anywhere between the opening <body> tag and
> the JavaScript call.
> </snip>
>
> Does this mean that I have my normal Google Analytics code at the bottom
> of the webpage (which calls urchinTracker()) but I have an additional
> urchinTracker call elsewhere on the page?
>
> Just seems a bit funny to me to have two calls?
>
>
> Joel
>
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http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27288

Had the same issue the other day - this should explain how to do it.

HTH

Dan
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