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I have 60 different forms. On submit, all land on site.com/thankyou.html . What will be an efficient way to track on analytics goal/conversion option when these forms are submitted .

Hi scapeunit,

I don't know much about Goal Tracking - I guess that you could add variables to the url to track the user and/or the form submitted??

Bob

this has been a consistent issue with us. on a site that has several forms that we want to track...there is no easy way to add the goal tracking code:

(from http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55514)

<script type="text/javascript">pageTracker._trackPageview("/example_form_submitted");</script>

it would be great if there was a plugin that would allow us just to add a URL which we can then track in google analytics goal tracking.

Hi yourmanstan,

That's all as clear as mud to me from a quick read. What do you actually need to show and where do you need to show it?

Bob

That's all as clear as mud to me from a quick read. What do you actually need to show and where do you need to show it?

with google adwords, you can track conversions by adding a script on a page. however we don't always want to use adwords, and google analytics has a similar tracking called goals/funnels. it tells us how well we are able to get visitors to complete the actions we want. ex: 1000 visitors and 20 "contact us" submissions vs previous 1000 visitors and 10 "contact us" submissions tells us that we have dramatically improved the conversion from visitor to customer.

the only other thing i can see from the google analytics page (http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55514) is that the google tracking code needs to be above the trackPageview() call

ex if you simply place the trackPageview in the "onsubmit" code of chronoforms:

<script type="text/javascript">pageTracker._trackPageview("/funnel_G1/step1.html");</script>

it will not work. you have to paste the tracking code and the trackpageview (with the tracking code first):

<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-xxxxx-x"); 
pageTracker._trackPageview(); 
} catch(err) {}</script> 
<script type="text/javascript">pageTracker._trackPageview("/funnel_G1/step1.html");</script>

i'm not sure if having the google analytics tracking code showing twice on the page will have any other issues...but this is the only way i can think of to show the tracking code before the goal tracking code. it does appear to track the goal correctly when done this way.