Re: [Summary-Talk] Grouping/Aliasing

[John <jd65451@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jason

Here is a good example. Say I you place a banner ad on
a website. The ad is run of site (ROS). It is
difficult to get an handle on visits from the ad
placement since it is reported in Summary by pages
rather than website. You might be getting hundreds of
click thurs but you have to count each website page
the visit comes from since your visits might be across
dozens of pages from that one website. If the Summary
referring domain report is 10 pages long, this makes
it difficult to track visits from this ad placement.

How can I aggregate all the visits from this ad
placement from one whole website (rather than various
pages in that website) in one place or report. This
would be a huge benefit to anyone managing media buys.

John Downs
Downs Marketing
Denver


--- Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If I understand what you mean then probably not.
> Assuming you have
> several domains being reported on in the same
> sub-report, and they have
> requests in common (like "/") and you want to
> rewrite the requests to
> show the domain name somehow, then there isn't any
> straight forward way
> to do that.
> 
> Domains can be reported on in different sub-reports,
> but as long as they
> are in the same sub-report there isn't any existing
> report of how
> specific requests break down by domain.
> 
> One way to work around this, with *serious*
> limitations, would be to
> define a custom log format that read the domain name
> in as if it were
> the query string. This would disable any actual
> query strings, and
> wouldn't work at all if the domain name occurred in
> the log entry before
> a field that contained a full request with query
> string. This would also
> make it impossible to report on domains in any
> normal way, ie no
> breaking the report into sub-reports by domain.
> Anyway, if the
> conditions were right it could be used to get the
> domain into the query
> string which could then be appended to the request
> using "Include query
> string in requests".
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> Pablo García wrote:
> > Is it possible to group/alias requests that
> belongs to a 
> > specific domain ? I have request in my log file
> that belongs to multiple 
> > domains, I'd like to group/alias them by domain to
> be able to check for 
> > growth.
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