Is Analytics Code for SubDomains different?
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I am currently tracking site performance on our website with Google Analytics.
Recently, we've brought a Wordpress blog into our site as a subdomain blog.accupos.com. Though we did this a few months ago, we do not have Analytics data for these pages within the wordpress platform.
I've found where to paste the code, in the Footer block of the Wordpress template, just before the close body tag (is this the best recommended way?) and just have one question about WHICH code to paste.
Can I add the original code, same as the rest of the site? Or does Analytics have a different code for tracking subdomains? If so, do I need to replace existing code for the rest of the site?
I hope I worded this okay. Please help. I'd appreciate it!
Derek M.
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Hi Derek
I checked out the site real quick.
Technically 'www' is a subdomain. So you should have www.accupos.com and blog.accupos (or just accupos.com for the main site).
When Google Analytics says "mutiple subdomains" they mean a website that has a root domain (accupos.com) with more than one subdomain it can load with - in your case it should be blog and www - but somehow you've got what's called a "sub subdomain"
So you should first look into how/why its set up like this and just have blog.accupos.com (without the www) This is something you'd have to likely work with IT or your developer to fix.
Then in analytics you'd select "One domain with mutiple subdomains" and you'd be all set.
-Dan
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I did see that tool for Analytics code but not sure how it fits together with the following:
When I found the Code Snippet in Google Analytics, there were 2 options, one was for "A single domain" and another variation of the code was for "One domain with multiple subdomains".
So here are my 2 Questions:
Considering our blog is in the subdomain format, www.blog.accupos.com, is this second code more appropriate, especially since we DON'T have MULTIPLE subdomains? (we only have one...www.blog.accupos.com)
If we do use the NEW code for "multiple subdomains", do we also replace the Analytics snippet on all the OTHER pages within the site which are already being tracked with the old code...?
Thanks!
DM
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Hi Derek
You can use the same analytics code as you do for the rest of the site. It makes sense in this case.
I would recommend using Yoast's Google Analytics plugin for WordPress - this way you don't need to put the tracking code into the WordPress code, the plugin will do it correctly for you.
Hope this helps!
-Dan
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