Included domains / tracked sites

What are included domains?

The included domains is a list of all of the domains, which your Snoobi account can collect data from. The included domains must enlist all domains that your website it divided into or where it fetches data from. Any missing domains means that they are not included in the tracking, it is therefore crucial to make sure that all the relevant domain names are included.

• Check if your website has many different domains and domain suffixes (such as .de, .co.uk etc.) or parallel network domains / mirror sites (such as companyname.com and someothername.com).
• A certain part of the site may be located under a different address, such as a free hosting provider , e.g. www.freehosting.com/~company.

Why is the scope of the tracked sites limited, why doesn't Snoobi simply save data from all pages that contain the Snoobi tag?

• The list blocks unwanted interference from other sites that have accidentally or purposely "stolen" and installed your Snoobi tag
• The list blocks your cached pages from search engines to avoid distorting the results

 

Adding a new domain to be tracked

 

The principle of configuring an included domain is that you should add the shortest possible common URL-address, which is used by all the website's pages.

Example

 

Let's presume that the content of a website "www.company.com" is actually gathered from three different addresses:
- some content is fetched from www.companyname.com
- a parallel domain with identical content is also used, called www.companyname.net
- additionally the website has material, which is located under www.freeserver.com/~companyx

This would mean that in addition to the main domain, all sub domains and encrypted pages will be tracked; including addresses such as https://companyname.com, www.companyname.com and store.companyname.com can be tracked, assuming they all contain the Snoobi tag. The percent mark has the same function as in all other Snoobi settings; it's a wildcard that replaces any combination of characters.

 

Do not use the following in the domain identifier

• http:// or https://
• sub folders, /
• precise file addresses

Path identifier

 

It often suffices to only use a percent sign as the path identifier, which means that you allow Snoobi to track all pages and sub pages of the domain, e.g.

%

Use the path identifier if you want to limit the tracking to a particular sub section or user folder, leaving out parts of the domain. The path identifier should be the shortest possible part of the address common to all pages or sections that you want to include. A user folder structure is often used if the site is located on a free hosting service (obviously you only want to track your own company's folder, not anyone else's) or if there are various country and/or language sites under the same domain, and you want to exclude some of them.

/~companyx%
/english%
/intra%

As this as your path identifier, your tracking will include all the pages within the given folder (such as all English pages with "/english%" but no French pages, because the French language folder has not been included).

Finally, always add a percent mark at the end of the identifier %.

Rule: 1 website = 1 Snoobi account With one Snoobi account, you may only track one website or one content entity. One content entity means that even if your site has several domains, they all form just one site even if the addresses change. If two domains clearly have different content, each domain should be tracked by a different Snoobi account. Gathering several website's tracking data into one and the same account results in hard to decipher results and jumbled data.

 

Excluded domains

Excluded domains gives you a list of domain names from which Snoobi has registered visits, but which are currently being rejected from the tracking. We recommend that you browse through this list in order to verify that no domains are on it which ought to be included in the tracking. 

 

Why are there IP addresses and other strange domains on the excluded domains list?

 

Search engines, web-based translation tools, e-mail services or even the previews pages of your CMS can cause domains to appear on the list. All of these services somehow use or load your web page into their own cache, which in turn causes them to run Snoobi's JavaScript tag, which has been installed into your site. Snoobi registers the page load but because the domain that is performing the load is excluded, it will never show up in your results. 

 

This type of URL or IP addresses should not be included in the tracking!

 

Max 10 tracked sites

The number of domains per account has been limited to 10. Contact Snoobi if you wish to add more domains into your Snoobi account.

 

Remember to install the Snoobi tag

Including your domains alone isn't enough when you want to start tracking a new domain. All tracked websites must also have a Snoobi tag installed. The Snoobi tag is account specific and remains the same for all domains it is installed into, so do not change the account name within the Snoobi tag (e.g. companyname_com -> companyname_org) unless you've been specifically instructed to do so.