Google Analytics Goal Tracking Not Working

[williammarlow]

I am trying to install goal tracking for a client to measure leads from SEO, and I'm running into problems with the Google Analytics goal tracking not working.  The only thing that I can think of that is preventing goal tracking from working is that the URL confirming page request URI looks like "contact/#contact-form-4475" and perhaps the hashtag is causing problems.  I wanted to ask the community if any of you have run into basic conversion tracking problems like this, where you need to track form fills on a website via a confirmation URL/destination URL goal, and what you did to solve it?  I appreciate any input on how to get data on conversions either by fixing the goal in GA or using a different tracking tool.  Thanks!

[CommercePundit]

Google Analytics's default implementation ignores the anchor, ie, everything after #, so you need to pass through the value manually. _trackPageview can accept a 2nd parameter that allows you to pass pageview values manually.

Read more...and get your answer about "Tracking Hashtags & Querystrings in GA?"

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

Forms are always a bitch to track with goal conversion tracking as you have so many variables and it always could go wrong, the page is refreshed when you have errors etc etc. The best thing I found in doing something like this is triggering an extra virtual pageview when the visitors completely succeeded in filling in the form.

This will for example trigger the pageview URI: 'contact/form-succeeded' which will make it really easy to track only that URL with goal conversion tracking in Google Analytics.

Hope this helps!