: Google Analytics tracking on the same domain account through an iframe I have written an advertising system for a client that serves adverts on one website (say, www.adhost.com) as a small HTML

@Ogunnowo487

You would need to pass their account variable as a parameter to the iFrame. You could then grab it (via server side or JS) and throw it into the GA call.

<iframe src="adhost.com/displayad.php?ga=UA-XXXXXXXX-X">


.. in displayad.php:

var GAaccount = 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X'; // grabbed via server side or custom JS function
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', GAaccount]);
// ...
</script>


This will get you at least pageviews for the ads. You'll probably want to do a couple of other things:


Since the cookies will be on different domains (one on addisplay.com and one on adhost.com) you'll also want to do things like _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); and an onclick with _gaq.push(['_link', 'ad.destination.url']). This will keep the visitor's session across the domains.
Add on extra campaign details using utm_source,utm_medium,etc. You can easily build these links here of you so desire - I'd strongly suggest doing this.


Like eduardocereto mentioned, this isn't the best way to go about this... but hopefully this helps.

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