Cross Domain Goal Tracking
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I am trying to set up conversion tracking on a new website. The traffic will be landing on example.com, but the final step of the transaction takes place on app.example.com. This is the first time I have ever done something like this and Google's documentation does not have a lot of details about how to do this in GA.
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Does the tracking code need to be installed on example.com and app.example.com?
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when setting up the goal page does it need to be /landing-page/thank-you or app.example.com/landing-page/thank-you
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is this well documented in google's help finals and i am just calling it the wrong thing?
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Check out this URL:
http://services.google.com/analytics/breeze/en/domains_subdomains/index.html
when to track across domains using the _link() method
when to track across domains using the _linkByPost() method
how to track across subdomains
best practices for tracking across subdomains how to track across multiple domains with subdomains
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