Parametre changes
The tracking is largely based on saving the URL-addresses of the pages being tracked. This enables you to see through which site a visitor has arrived to yours as how the visitor has navigated in-site after their arrival.
Hence, URL-addresses can sometimes cause problems in the tracking, if the given URL-addresses don't give a fair account of the visitor's moves. If the problem is that more than one page share the same URL-address even though their content is different, it is possible to artificially add a parametre into the address. The additional parametre will help because the formerly identical addresses will become different and the tracking can recognize them as separate pages.
Addurl: Adding a parametre to the URL-address
Why: when there are not enough separating variables
An additional parametre can be useful when several different pages share the same URL-address. This often concerns functions executed with the Post-method (such as forms or in-site search engines) or when cookies are used to change a attribute (such as in languages) - there is no change to the address even if a new action is taken. Another common example is the "thank you" page which appears after sending a form. If both the form page and the "thank you" page it is not possible to tell apart which visitors only open the form and which visitors go all the way, filling and sending it.
In these cases, the additional parametre will aid in creating a new URL-address, making it possible to separate one page from another.
The Addurl-variable will not affect the "real" address of the page and will be not visible on the address bar when the page is loaded. In other words, the extra parametre only affects the performance of Snoobi.
How: into the Snoobi-tag
Unlike most parametres that can be used with Snoobi, Addurl can not be implemented through Snoobi's settings. It must be added straight into the Snoobi-tag in the source code or template of the pages themselves. The parametre used is &addurl=, an example follows:
Image 1. Placing addurl into the Snoobi-tag
The purple section depicts the changes in the source code or template. The address of the page itself needn't be tampered with; an addition to the Snoobi-tag suffices.
The Addurl-parametre can be used together with other parametres, such as Page names (&page_name=) and Sectioning (§ion=).
<!-- BEGIN Snoobi v1.4 -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://eu1.snoobi.com/snoop.php?tili=yritys_fi&addurl=order-confirmation
&page_name=Products§ion=English: Products">
</script>
<!-- END Snoobi v1.4 -->
If you want to five the addurl parametre several different values, please do this by running the value through URL encoding. This means that the & sign in the parametre is replaces by %26 and similarly, the = sign is replaced by %3D.
If we choose the following as the parametre
addurl=lang=en&searchstring=word
, then the addurl parametre should be changed like this addurl=lang%3Den%26searchstring%3Dword