Question

I have a GA setup of one main domain, plus subdomains, plus a separate Tumblr domain. I am trying to get a filter to work for the Tumblr. I can see pageviews in the real-time at the main domain level showing for Tumblr hits, but not in the profile filter, which leads me to believe I have a problem in my filter setup.

Main reporting GA URL:

 - example.com

GA code on the main domain is:

  var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker('UA-XXXXXXX-1');
  pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true);
  pageTracker._setDomainName('none');
  pageTracker._trackPageview();

Blog filter URLs:

 - blog.example.com
 - example.tumblr.com

The GA code on the Tumblr is:

  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-1']);
  _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'example.tumblr.com']);
  _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

I have a profile called “blog” which has two custom filters:

  Include / Hostname / "blog\.example\.com"
  Include / Hostname / "tumblr"

Answer 1

I found the problem. Instead of having two include filters for the blog profile, I needed to only have one, and use an OR pipe to include both:

tumblr|blog\.example\.com

Having two separate filters was causing them to cancel each other out.