: Tracking referrals between profiles on the same domain in Google Analytics I have a website at mydomain.com that uses Analytics. I have a blog that resides at mydomain.com/blog/, which also uses

@Smith883

My understanding was that _setDomainName('none') was used to seperate subdomains not subdirectories. Did this work for anybody?

I've tried the original scenario mentioned above by doctororange and got the same results - traffic from blog showing as direct traffic.

I also tried using profiles on the same domain and applied filters. In this case traffic showed from it's origninal source before the blog.

Is there any way to seperate a subdirectory so it's treated like a differnt domain I guess is my question!

I'm beginning to think it may be better just to use one profile and perhaps advanced segments.

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@Carla537

I would advise you use the same tracking code for mydomain.com and for it's subdirectores like /blog/ and set up profiles for the site in you GA account for this.
With a filter like "include only traffic to subdirectories that contain /blog/".

Use different tracking codes for different domains or subdomains, and not for subdirectories.

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@Jessie594

Have you tried using the function "_setDomainName('none')". That way both URLs are treated as different, else you need to:

_gaq.push(['_setAccount','UA-XXXXXXXX-6']);
_gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker',true]);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName','mydomain.com']);


and set the backlinks to:

<a href="http://mydomain.com/blog/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_link','mydomain.com/blog/']);return false;">Link to blog</a>


as well as set:

_gaq.push(['_setAccount','UA-XXXXXXXX-7']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName','none']);
_gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker',true]);


and set links back via:

<a href="http://mydomain.com/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_link','mydomain.com']);return false;">Back to site</a>

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