Google Analytics Registration Goal Plugin
 

Nice idea :D

I was just about to start on one of these.... great job! Thanks.

I tried to sign up but they closed signups :(

@Dan Thanks. I hope you enjoy it!

@Ted I was surprised someone else had not done it already. If you see something else you think should be added, shoot it my way.

@PixelFx Go ahead and signup. They'll put you on the waiting list.

Does this work on 3.5 or strictly 3.5.1?

I don't have 3.5 to test on, but I believe it will work on either version. As long as the hooks are there in 3.5, there won't be a problem.

Looking good. :)

its working :) good work

Pardon me for being stupid, but can you please answer this:

http://www.example.com/funnel_register/signup.html

I should change example.com to my domain, correct? Also, if my forums are not in the domain root, I should also add the subfolder, correct?

For the first question, Yes. You should change example.com to your domain.

For the second, you should not add the subfolder. It may work if you do, but Google's instructions say to show it this way so it looks like it is off the root of your domain.

Just like that? or do we need our /forums/ directory in that path too?

Also, some of the plugins seem to be disabled by default, is that correct?

Just like that is correct. Replace www.example.com with your domain name. You do not need to put your forum directory, and Google's instructions are to show the funnel as coming off your root. I expect it would work if you included your forums directory as this is basically just a made-up path for reporting purposes, but I haven't tried it.

Yes. I currently have two plugins disabled while under beta. They hook into additional areas that may be used based on your registration configuration. If you do a test registration on your system and view the source of each registration page, you can verify that a funnel_register shows on each page. As long as it does, you can safely delete the two disabled ones. If you find any pages missing one, then most likely we'll need to enable one or both of the disabled plugins.

I can't seem to get it to work. It installed fine, but I get the error message from Google: "Goal Creation failed. Please verify and try again. If you continue to have problems, please contact our support team." Here's a screen shot of what I see... maybe I missed something?

I don't see anything wrong in your screenshot. Double check the portion of your http://www.example.com/funnel_register/pagename.html on each line and make sure there are no typos hiding. I do not believe it actually checks to see if the pages exist when you make the goal.

Hmmm... no typos. Should the page http://www.photographycorner.com/fun...e_account.html actually go somewhere?

No, the page is made up specifically for registration.

Hmmm... any other ideas why it's not working then? :speechless:

I'm looking at Google right now. There are some more settings further down the page. What settings do you have here?

Goal
(see above)

Case sensitive

Match type

Goal value

Goal
(see above): (not editable) http://www.photographycorner.com/fun...e_account.html Registration

Case sensitive: checked

Match type: Head Match

Goal value: blank/$1

Try changing your goal value to just the number 1. No word blank. No slash. No dollar sign.
The only other setting you have different from mine is the case sensitivity. I have it turned off.

Grr... took case sensitivity off. Same error. Changed goal value to 1, still same error. I tried every combination with those last options, still same error.

Next step verify that Step 5 through Step 10 have nothing in them. After that, I recommend you blank and retype the URLs in case there is something you are just not seeing in there. The URL itself doesn't have to be valid, but there may be a check for http:// at the beginning.

This is what they should be:
Goal URL: http://www.photographycorner.com/fun...e_account.html
Step 1: http://www.photographycorner.com/fun...er/signup.html
Step 2: http://www.photographycorner.com/fun...ster_form.html
Step 3: http://www.photographycorner.com/fun...ber_added.html
Step 4: http://www.photographycorner.com/fun...e_account.html

I put the settings above into a domain for my account, using copy shortcut to get the full URL path. Google accepted it without a problem. If you want, grant my google account the ability to login and look at your account and I'll be happy to check it out. faewen at g mail dot c o m

Does anyone know when google analytics is going to allow signups? Seems they closed registration.

Not sure what was going on before, but I started again, and it worked. ;) Either Google had a brain cramp before, or I did. :P Thanks for all the help... great mod! :D

Any idea what you changed? I'm having the same issue.

Closed my browser and went back in... that's about it, actually. Try logging out and logging back in, maybe?

i dont understand what this hack does???

They have said they will allow signups as their system allows it. The last time I checked, they let you put your name on the waiting list.

I'm so glad to hear it worked! I was really scratching my head trying to figure out what was wrong as everything looked right.

When you use Google analytics, it lets you keep track of conversions. The problem tracking a new member conversion in vBulletin is that all the pages throughout the registration process are register.php. What this does is create a fake URL that shows up on each page as a user registers so you can keep track of the full registration "funnel" (Google's term).

RetroDreams,
Is it working for you now?

Nope.

I've tried everything else that was suggested in the thread, too.

Can you post a screenshot of your Google page? Also, if you add my google account, I can take a look at it for you that way.

I'm using 3.5.2 and its not generating unique urls. I suspect this might have something to do with me running vbseo which has url rewrite rules.

I haven't used VBSEO, but it shouldn't interfere. This plugin doesn't generate unique URLs that you will see in the address bar of your browser. To verify it is working, you need to look at the source code. Go through your registration process, and on each page, view the source. Look for the URL with funnel_register. If it is there, then it is working and Google Analytics will pick it up.

http://www.nzboards.com/forums/register.php .. it's there in the source, but not one conversion has been picked up since I installed. :(

Kall,
I just signed in today and saw your post. Did Google start picking up your data yet, or are you still having problems?

Hey Elleth,

Yes, I think it did/is.. I didn't have the FULL URL specified... :)