Comments on: Domain Canonicalization – Part 2 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2008/10/13/domain-canonicalization-part-2/ Traffic, Analysis, Action Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:49:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2008/10/13/domain-canonicalization-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1381 John Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:32:20 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1381 Luke, What you are describing is because the domain of the cookie was explicitly set in GA, with the method: pageTracker._setDomainName('.domain.com'); This tells GA to ignore what is in the address bar of the browser when it reads and writes cookies, and instead to pretend that it is always ".domain.com". Hope that help, John Luke,

What you are describing is because the domain of the cookie was explicitly set in GA, with the method: pageTracker._setDomainName(‘.domain.com’);

This tells GA to ignore what is in the address bar of the browser when it reads and writes cookies, and instead to pretend that it is always “.domain.com”.

Hope that help,

John

]]> By: Luke Stevens http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2008/10/13/domain-canonicalization-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1380 Luke Stevens Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:00:37 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1380 First, I just wanted to say I love all your fantastic, detailed posts :) Very helpful, thanks! Secondly, I just thought I'd ask if this was still the case with GA and cookies. I've just checked a bunch of sites and they all seem to have .domain.com set as the default cookie domain. It doesn't matter if I enter the site with or without www in the url (they're not redirecting - poor form I know), the cookie is still .domain.com , not www.domain.com or domain.com. Likewise, it doesn't seem to matter what is set as the site URL in the profile. I thought it might so I checked, but regardless of whether it was domain.com, www.domain.com or http://www.domain.com , the cookies were always .domain.com . Just thought I'd mention it :) First, I just wanted to say I love all your fantastic, detailed posts :) Very helpful, thanks!

Secondly, I just thought I’d ask if this was still the case with GA and cookies. I’ve just checked a bunch of sites and they all seem to have .domain.com set as the default cookie domain. It doesn’t matter if I enter the site with or without www in the url (they’re not redirecting – poor form I know), the cookie is still .domain.com , not http://www.domain.com or domain.com. Likewise, it doesn’t seem to matter what is set as the site URL in the profile. I thought it might so I checked, but regardless of whether it was domain.com, http://www.domain.com or http://www.domain.com , the cookies were always .domain.com .

Just thought I’d mention it :)

]]> By: Amit Kapoor http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2008/10/13/domain-canonicalization-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1379 Amit Kapoor Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:10:31 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1379 Hi, Thanks for clearing this aspect also. I knew about canonical error but as SEO point of view . today i got new way of thing for this issue.. Thanks again. Amit Kapoor Hi,
Thanks for clearing this aspect also. I knew about canonical error but as SEO point of view . today i got new way of thing for this issue..
Thanks again.
Amit Kapoor

]]> By: Manuel http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2008/10/13/domain-canonicalization-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1378 Manuel Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:20:43 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1378 hi thanks for making it clear, like always :) I would have one more question, i wonder if there is a problem of canonicalization with the campaign tagging or when you use the ._setAllowLinker to pass by the get method the cookie values among differents domains. Thanks. hi thanks for making it clear, like always :) I would have one more question, i wonder if there is a problem of canonicalization with the campaign tagging or when you use the ._setAllowLinker to pass by the get method the cookie values among differents domains. Thanks.

]]> By: Allan http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2008/10/13/domain-canonicalization-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1377 Allan Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:03:17 +0000 http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1377 Thanks for this write up. I've only recently started to use GA and am just getting familiar with its strengths and weaknesses. Thanks for this write up. I’ve only recently started to use GA and am just getting familiar with its strengths and weaknesses.

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