How to Set up goals and funnels for dynamically generated pages?
by GRR | May 15, 2006 | In Internet Marketing, Web Analytics | No Comments
If your web pages are dynamically generated and have urls with all fancy parameters, you can still set up goals and funnels for your pages. Depending upon the nature of your URL generation, you can make use of Google Analytics 3 matching types.
Exact Match: As the name implies, this is a strict matching type wherein the URL you enter in the funnel or conversion goal should match with the original URL.
(Eg.) No dynamic ids are allowed.
Head Match: In this type, you are free to use dynamic session or user identification numbers on your URL. You can leave out the unique ids and enter the same URL.
(Eg.) If the dynamic url is: default.cgi?page=1&id=123&session=0123454, then you can enter only default.cgi?page=1
Regular expression: This is useful for a bit complex URL structures where both the session as well as user ids are dynamic. And sub-domains too. You will enter only the constant part of the URL.
(Eg.) If the dynamic urls are: sub1.domain.com/default.cgi?page=1&id=123 and sub2.domain.com/default.cgi?page=1&id=123, you can enter only page=1
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