Labelling mij vistors works. Thanks for your free advise.

Greetz,

Ioptia.nl

Thank you for your code. But I found bug in it.

If you send information like this:
superSetVar(‘/campaign_name=External Adv.’);

Then this value will not be sent into GA. Problem is if you are sending value with dot.

I think problem is here:
removePrefix = /^.*\.(.*)/.exec(getVar);

Nice script. Small and simple. We’re having some trouble integrating it though – it seems that if we try to unset the var and there’s only one in the cookie, it doesn’t get removed. For example,

superSetVar(“/eyes=blue”); // cookie says eyes = blue
unsetVar(“/eyes=”); // cookie still says eyes = blue

Debugging in Firebug I see it getting to superSetvarTracker._setVar(“”); but checking the cookie after this, it still has the original value.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rob.

The only issue I’m having, is that the session appears to only be set on the return visit, and not on the visit where the action is taken. So let’s say I want to track users who sign up for our email list and then sign our petition:

1. On their first visit, they signup for the email list – in analytics, their user defined variable for this visit not set.
2. On their second visit, they sign the petition – their user defined variable for this visit is emailsignup=1
3. They would need to visit a third time in order to get the user defined variable emailsignup=1/petition=1

Is there any way around this? I know Google Analytics is picky when it comes to resetting user defined variables. Is there a more clear way to reset it within the session? Or is there Javascript I could use to do a force reset of the session to get the user defined variable in there?

Thanks!
Marissa

I would like to know if your solution can work for me, or what can be done if not.
I am advertising a minisite where people register, during their registration I gather information about them and whether they completed successfully of failed.
I would like to use the user defined segment to do some drill downs, but I have that information DURING and at THE END of the process.
I understood from the talkbacks that this information will only be posted at the next visit.

Is there a way to track information about the user as part of the current session?

Would appriciate suggestions.

Thanks,
Daniel

You are the first person to comment on that !!

Is it possible to tag your Yahoo paid search with campaign parameters that include utm_medium=cpc ?

Is it possible to tag your Paid email campaigns with utm_medium=emailp or some other value that is different from “email” ?

In order to use the user defined segment you have to know that the visitor came from one of these sources anyway, that means that the links would already have to be tagged with some other identifier. Otherwise you’d not have any hook with which to set the user defined segment for that visitor. That is to say, it doesn’t seem like you’d be able to tell which visitors came from yahoo paid search and which came from yahoo organic search.

How would I populate _setVar to do this? Would I use the regular code or the SuperSetVar code? I’m not a programmer but I’d like to go into my IT dep’t with at least something in my hand that says they could do this – saves me from calling b.s. on my IT guy if he doesn’t know it can be done but tells me it “can’t” anyway.

Thanks,
Matt Biskup