Comments on: Filters for Google Analytics - What are your questions? http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/06/26/filters-for-google-analytics-what-are-your-questions/ LunaMetric's blog on conversion rate and web analytics Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:57:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ By: Robbin http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/06/26/filters-for-google-analytics-what-are-your-questions/#comment-661 Robbin Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:15:32 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/06/26/filters-for-google-analytics-what-are-your-questions/#comment-661 Hi Julien. To answer the specific question: Yes, you can get rid of the dynamic parameters, but you don't need filters for that. You can use the query string default abilities that GA provides when you set up each profile for this: http://www.epikone.com/blog/2006/09/21/google-analytics-configuration-mistake-2-query-string-variables/ If there are situations where you *want* those parameters, just set up a separate profile (always a good idea anyway) and use one profile with the query parameters deleted and the other one with them still there. Go ahead and post again if that wasn't clear *or* if you were dying to use filters. (You could do a lot of Search and Replace work, but the simpler solution seems to be the better one.) Hi Julien. To answer the specific question: Yes, you can get rid of the dynamic parameters, but you don’t need filters for that. You can use the query string default abilities that GA provides when you set up each profile for this:

http://www.epikone.com/blog/2006/09/21/google-analytics-configuration-mistake-2-query-string-variables/

If there are situations where you *want* those parameters, just set up a separate profile (always a good idea anyway) and use one profile with the query parameters deleted and the other one with them still there.

Go ahead and post again if that wasn’t clear *or* if you were dying to use filters. (You could do a lot of Search and Replace work, but the simpler solution seems to be the better one.)

]]> By: JulienSEO http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/06/26/filters-for-google-analytics-what-are-your-questions/#comment-659 JulienSEO Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:50:44 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2007/06/26/filters-for-google-analytics-what-are-your-questions/#comment-659 Hi Robbin, I use customised tags to link my Paid search data to GA (www.example.com?utm_source=AdWords&utm_medium=PPC&utm_term={keyword}&utm_content={creative}&utm_campaign=Laser_Printer_3_ON&Network={ifContent:Content}{ifSearch:Search}&SiteTarget={placement}) I then want to analyse what are the typical path users are taking from my landing page (what do they do next). Unfortunately, GA then gives me a bunch of "different urls" for my landing page (/en/shop/index.asp?Network=Search&SiteTarget=&w=keyword A, /en/shop/index.asp?Network=Search&SiteTarget=&w=keyword B, etc) I was wondering if I could create a filter that takes off all the dynamic parameters from that url so I could analyse the behavior of all the paid search trafic going to that url? Thank you for your time, JulienSEO Hi Robbin,

I use customised tags to link my Paid search data to GA (www.example.com?utm_source=AdWords&utm_medium=PPC&utm_term={keyword}&utm_content={creative}&utm_campaign=Laser_Printer_3_ON&Network={ifContent:Content}{ifSearch:Search}&SiteTarget={placement})

I then want to analyse what are the typical path users are taking from my landing page (what do they do next). Unfortunately, GA then gives me a bunch of “different urls” for my landing page (/en/shop/index.asp?Network=Search&SiteTarget=&w=keyword A, /en/shop/index.asp?Network=Search&SiteTarget=&w=keyword B, etc)

I was wondering if I could create a filter that takes off all the dynamic parameters from that url so I could analyse the behavior of all the paid search trafic going to that url?

Thank you for your time,

JulienSEO

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