Subdomain tracking codes on subdomain and not root

[Sarbs]

Afternoon all.

I’m pretty sure this is going to be fine but I thought I would seek some confirmation before I action anything.

We have a blog subdomain on our site, I have just noticed that the entire blog (built in Wordpress) has no analytics tracking code on it. As this is built in Wordpress I have just logged in on an admin account I think people forgot I had and added the code to the header section as it is a two second job.

My question is this – On the main account, subdomain tracking has not been turned on, so the root domain has not got the additional   _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'rootdomain.co.uk']); line of code in it. I have included this on the blog.rootdomain.co.uk code as is necessary to enable tracking. Will this work or cause tracking issues? I think it should be ok.

I don’t want to have to update the root domain code if I can avoid it as that will need to go through the development team and may take weeks as they are swamped and under resourced.

Thanks, Rich.

[Sarbs]

Thanks for the link George.

I can also confirm that we are now seeing this Data in our reports, no apparant issues although i need to look further at visitors from the blog to the main site being recorded correctly just to be safe.

Thanks, Rich

[GeorgeDavis]

This will work, no issues. (Source)