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Originally Posted by jdebler

That guy in Texas knows exactly what he is talking about, especially in post #4. His advice there doesn't apply to everyone, and putting it in the footer works for what most people need it for, but he definitely isn't wrong.

With all due respect, he's completely wrong and hasn't got a clue what he's talking about. Maybe his knowledge comes from some different software package, or maybe he's used to some ancient version of Urchin before Google took over. I've spent considerable time using Analytics, I've read most of their documentation and successfully implemented it into several of my own forums and websites.

Fact #1: Analytics is supposed to track every page on your forum
Fact #2: Analytics is clever enough to be able to work out what page the visitor is currently looking at
Fact #3: Analytics can track conversions without modifying the code or placing it on only some pages. For example, if I want to track how many people register, I setup a "Goal" for register.php. Whenever someone goes to that page and ends up completing the registration, it tracks that as a conversion.

And here's Google's official documentation about Goals and Funnels:
https://www.google.com/support/googl...n_US&utm_id=ad

And here's the documentation about Goals on dynamically generated pages:
https://www.google.com/support/googl...14&ctx=sibling

You'll notice that you configure everything through the Analytics website, not once does Google ask you to change your code. You use regular expressions, head or exact matches based on the URL of the page.

Google does all the work for you, so the correct instructions for this mod should be:

1. Open your footer template
2. Find </body>
3. Paste the code just before </body>
4. Save the template

If you don't believe me, try it out for yourself.