Comments on: Campaign Tracking using _setAllowAnchor

By: Morris

Morris — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:13:21 +0000

Hey John, I was hoping you might be able to answer a question I have about this:

Is set AllowAnchor True necessary to track site search when a hash is being used instead of the question mark?

Ie, the seach results page is: example.com/#s=[query]

Do you know? We’re getting some results through, but not everything.

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By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:28:36 +0000

I have been playing with Google Analytics to see how I can improvise a program to grab the visitors out of Google analytics and match them up with the idxbroker IDX control panel so I can tell which visitor that signed up came from where.. For example if they came from adwords, bing or just google generic… but the problem is I can see the lead but am not able to connect them with the actual signup at the back end of idxbroker program…
If anyone has any idea how to do this I would be very interested…

By: Tom Atkinson

Tom Atkinson — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:32:27 +0000

You almost neglected to include the actual reason someone might want to do all this in the first place. I’m guessing this could be done for SEO reasons but the effects must be pretty minimal. Potentially say you had a very powerful paid link that you wanted tracked you could do this to consolidate the rankings down. Surely Google can automatically do this now in it’s indexing would be my call. I will admit though that I have seen GA tagged URLs appear in the index and thought it odd. This would solve that? Seems a bit of a waste of effort: could achieve the same thing with the canonical tag on the page. I guess the # would be more elegant tho. And helps Google not to waste bandwidth.

By: John

John — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:42:22 +0000

I would say that is correct. My understanding is that Google does not index portions of the URL after a #.

By: AL

AL — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:17:01 +0000

Hi John,
Thanks for the above!
IF I’m understanding one of it’s potential uses correctly … I can now track and analyse direct traffic from externally placed SEO friendly links as Google won’t index the URL past the # but will recognise the tracking parameters in GA.
Please let me know if I’ve misunderstood
Cheers, AL.

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:34:57 +0000

It should track both ? and #

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:27:57 +0000

Thanks this works great.
If I implement this will it track the ‘?’ tracking as well as # or is it only one or the other?
Want to use the # for SEO but will be a massive job changing all the media buying over from ? so if i can use both then that would be perfect. Does this mean both will be tracked?

Thanks

By: iamseo

iamseo — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:35:31 +0000

Actually, sorry – the above is incorrect. Please update it to:

_gaq.push(['_setAllowAnchor', true]);

By: iamseo

iamseo — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:29:31 +0000

This is how you would use the setAllowAnchor call with the new asynchronous tracking syntax:

_gaq.push(['_setAllowAnchor'], true);