Tracking visits who entered the site via subdomain in GA
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Hello,
Does anybody know how I can segment visits who entered my site via subdomain?
For example:
I want to know people who entered via subdomain.example.com/*****
and not include people who entered via www.example.com
Thanks in advance!
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If you can identify specific landing pages that only exist on the subdomain, you can create a segment using the Landing Page field and setting the landing page URIs as the value. You can use RegEx if you have multiple landing pages and can do some pattern matching.
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Thanks for your reply - I don't think I've phrased my question correctly.
I'll try to figure it out and ask again once I have a clearer question
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Elias,
You should be able to accomplish this by just typing the sub-domain in the "filter" box on the GA "Traffic Sources" tab.
I just tried this and it works with "answers.yahoo.com" as opposed to "yahoo.com"
I apologize if I am missing something, please let me know.
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