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Place Google Analytics conversion tracking script on each form's thank you

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  1. mmorris
    Member

    I manage a website for a client who also has an AdWords campaign, and we need to set up conversion tracking for each form submitted. The company that is managing the AdWords campaign has set up the conversion tracking script for me to place on each "thank you" page that appears after a form is submitted (we have six AdWords groups; each group leads to a page on the site where a form can be submitted), but I don't know how to add the GA script.

    The company told me that the script needs to go in the head section of each "thank you" page, except that we don't have a thank you page; instead, when someone completes the form a little thank-you message pops up—you don't actually leave the page and go to a separate thank you page.

    Is there a way for me to place the javascript snippet somewhere in each form so that when the submit button is hit it tracks in GA?

    (As an example, here is one of the forms: http://www.stewarthome.com/contact/)

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday March 9, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    You can try placing the code in the Thank You message confirmation text for your form. It should still get executed.

    You can also create a custom thank you page and use the redirect feature to redirect to that rather than the built in confirmation text.

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday March 9, 2011 | Permalink

  3. mmorris
    Member

    Excellent, thank you so much!

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday March 9, 2011 | Permalink

  4. mmorris
    Member

    Hi again,

    I placed the script in the confirmation box as indicated, but when the form is submitted the source code shows that it's converted into HTML, which
    tags placed after each line of javascript. The ad company we're working with has indicated that this will cause the script to not work correctly.

    Do you know if there's any way to get the form to not convert javascript to HTML? Or is my only other option to create a new thank you page and direct the form submission to it?

    Thanks!

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday March 11, 2011 | Permalink

  5. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    We'll look into this, the issue may be because the Confirmation Text block auto-formats your content. We may have to add a feature to the Confirmation Text like we have on Notification Text to not auto-format. I will look into this.

    A work around is to use a custom thank you page. Create a page in WordPress that acts as your thank you page and use that as your confirmation page. Then setup your form to redirect to that page as the Thank You message.

    But i'll look into the confirmation text/html issue as it relates to Javascript.

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday March 11, 2011 | Permalink

  6. mmorris
    Member

    Thanks so much, Carl. I'll create a custom thank-you page as a work around but look forward to the ability to not have the text auto-formatted right in the confirmation box. That would be awesome! :)

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday March 11, 2011 | Permalink

  7. deukdesign
    Member

    +one

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday March 30, 2011 | Permalink

  8. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    1.5 allows you to disable auto-formatting on the confirmation text. So this should be doable in the 1.5 release if you disable auto-formatting when configuring your confirmation message.

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday March 30, 2011 | Permalink

  9. Josh Fialkoff
    Member

    Hi,
    How do I add Google Analytics code to have a virtual conversion using this structure:
    Thanks,
    Josh


    on_sent_ok: "_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/sidebar-contact-form-confirmation/']);"

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday April 15, 2011 | Permalink

  10. hedu
    Member

    Huh! I missed that sooo much! Thank you, this really helps. The workaround with the other tahnk-you page is not so nice, since you can't place fields there.

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday October 11, 2011 | Permalink

  11. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Google Analytics conversion goal code should be able to be executed using a jQuery script block in the confirmation message of the form.

    You would edit your form, edit the form settings and select the Confirmation tab. Then you would need to place the script related to conversion in the confirmation message itself. It would then be executed when the confirmation message is displayed.

    See this screenshot:

    https://skitch.com/carlhancock/8b86k/edit-forms-gravity-forms-v1.6-wordpress

    If you aren't sure how to execute that Google Analytics code using a script block, this tutorial explains how to do it:

    http://blog.endpoint.com/2011/04/virtual-page-tracking-google-analytics.html

    When placing scripts like this in the confirmation message you must disable auto-formatting on the confirmation message. Otherwise the auto-formatting can cause problems with the script itself.

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday February 13, 2012 | Permalink

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