Comments on: Capturing Web Traffic Data — Two Methods That Suck

By: All Web Analytics Tools Are the Same (at least when it comes to data capture) | Gilligan on Data by Tim Wilson

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:15:52 +0000

[...] needed to back up and make sure I had a good, clean explanation of a key aspect of the mechanics of page tag-based web analytics tools. I poked around on the interweb a bit and found some quick explanations that were accurate, but [...]

By: Peter Franklin

Peter Franklin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:29:24 +0000

This is acceptable in terms of search engine optimization. Nothing appears to bother upon them compared to that!Funnily enough, this is just what was forewarned about several years prior at the blackhat con about search engines in 1995!

By: Tim Wilson

Tim Wilson — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:06:42 +0000

@Matt Yikes. That’s a tough one. I can’t say I’ve run into that situation, but I can’t say I’m surprised that someone did!

Am I understanding correctly that the problem occurs once a visitor lands on an Eloqua-managed landing page/hypersite? Everything works fine when you’re on other pages on the site that simply have both the Eloqua and the GA tag, right?

If that’s the case, one kinda’ ugly option might be to shift the forms off of an Eloqua-managed page and then have the form POST to Eloqua (you still set up the form in Eloqua, it just doesn’t handle the visitor-facing page).

That’s not exactly soothing…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:35:14 +0000

Great article, Tim. Have you run across issues with getting Google’s reporting (both PPC and Analytics) to work properly on a site that uses Eloqua? I recently discovered that conversions had dropped to zero because Eloqua was stripping out the gclid value when the ppc visitor submitted an inquiry form – so the google snippet wasn’t picking up on that conversion event. Managed to fix that by having Eloqua pass the gclid value in a hidden form field; conversions show up in Google PPC console, but now Google Analytics isn’t seeing ANY activity from paid search. It’s making me tear my hair out! Any ideas/thoughts/soothing words?

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By: Lollyto

Lollyto — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:26:20 +0000

favorited this one, man

By: tgwilson

tgwilson — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:58:30 +0000

Yikes! The danger of writing/reviewing on a 1280×1024 display! I’ve resized the image to make it all fit, as well as made it a hyperlink to a larger version of the image. Thanks!

By: Shabbir

Shabbir — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:57:07 +0000

Hey Tim,
Great post, I liked it! however, the diagram showing the flow of traffic in page-tag based approach is not visible fully.

Thanks
Shabbir

By: Capturing Web Traffic Data — Two Methods that Suck · We cares

Capturing Web Traffic Data — Two Methods that Suck · We cares — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:46:30 +0000

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