How to Set Up Subdomain Tracking in Google Analytics

[@Tam-R]

What's really cool is that you do this once and it works for all subdomains. Thanks!

[@Orbitmedia]

You bet!

[@bradmathias7513]

I followed the steps accurately but there is no data reflecting in the view that I made. I have multiple subdomains and I'm a bit confused as to how do I set up views in which the data for each subdomain reflects separately under one property. Could you please guide me?

[@55tranquility]

Woah - thanks, I had completely forgotten how to do this and was reading the official Google guidelines and scratching my head. This made it so much simpler to understand and set up 🙌 - and it works! 🙏

[@jessehopkins8928]

Thank you!! This video was incredibly helpful. FYI - The bitly link in the description took me to a different piece of content

[@vikashmohanty288]

Great Tips. I was searching for it as i forgot how to do because of out of touch... Great that you reminded me... Kudos

[@wellymulia]

Thanks Andy! This is the most concise and easiest to follow tutorial on how to set up GA on sub-domains.

[@Orbitmedia]

Thanks, Welly!

[@eminamusaefendic2001]

Thanks for this video. It shows the full URL now on both of my sites. But at one of them I still don't see the traffic on my subdomain. I did the exact same thing on both websites. What could be the problem?

[@mcbaddeley]

didn't work for me. Doesn't pick up anything on my subdomain.

[@dand4075]

How come when I go to "all pages" or "content drilldown" I don't see the subdomained full URL. I only see in "real time".

[@etiennedayer5938]

Hi thanks for the tutorial! Do you happen to know why the conversion tracking in the original view "All Website data" stopped working ? It only works in the "Full URL view" at the moment.

[@KatieGoesPlatinum]

Thank you! It worked beautifully!

[@WorkHardTravelWell]

Why am I just now finding this! Glad I did, thanks! This helps me since I have a store and blog

[@Orbitmedia]

Thank you! Let us know if you need anything.

[@lenedamgaard9081]

Thank you so much! This was exactly what I needed! Had to try a few times (because I had to switch to the All Data view to the Full view I made, it didn´t automatically, and then I had to make the filter there (and not in the All Data view. But it is working now! And I am happy! Thanks;)

[@yavarkhanonlinemillionaire6931]

I tried implementing it but what if i want to set goals from my domain to subdomain ? as currently in my all page views i can see my domain+subdomain URL

[@icehounddigital]

This is what I want to know too (and for remarketing). What if our main domain links to store.maindomain.com?

[@webzzinet61]

what happened with new GA4 properties for subdomains? many thanks in advance

[@pascalgermain4956]

So I just have to set the same tracking ID on all the subdomains. But how to I merge the data if it was on different IDs before?

[@rojibfauzi2932]

how is in GA4 ?

[@dinatullidavis9849]

Hi, I have a different situation. I have a main URL domain name---example: (www.abccompany.com) to be tracked and then two additional domain names (www.widgets.com and www.letters.com) used for marketing purposes that will redirect to related product pages within the main URL (www.abccompany.com) website. I set up a Google Analytics property and code for the main URL (www.abccompany.com). How do I treat the www.widgets.com and www.letters.com to track the direct usage of these domains that redirect to product related pages within the main URL website (i.e. www.abccompany.com/widgets.html and www.abccompany.com/letters.html) respectively? Do I add more codes to the one property for the main URL (www.abccompany.com) or set up each domain as a separate property? Thanks in advance!

[@JustinCountryman]

Great tip. Can you explain why you would want this filter in a different view? Wouldn't you want this in the same view as all your historical data so you don't have to bounce between views? Thanks!

[@Orbitmedia]

You can do either!

[@DerricHaynie]

Andy is the man! Thanks so much.

[@Orbitmedia]

Thanks for watching, Derric!

[@JohnSchuster1]

Thank you, This is exactly what I was trying to do and would have never figured this out on my own.

[@statsorama]

Hi Andy, it's Kelly (formerly of Bird-X) - hope you're doing well!! Request for a future video (something I cannot find an answer to anywhere!!): once you have everything set up that's described in this video, how can you set up Goal Tracking to then track a conversion goal that starts with a subdomain (the funnel structure requires "/thankyou.html" url... but the structure I need to use is "subdomain.domain.com"), and ends with a /thankyou page? Ex. the menu is on a subdomain, but the thank you page after they place the order redirects to domain.com/thankyou destination? Thank you in advance, and good to find you on KZbin!

[@rescho1981]

Great!!! Finally a tutorial that works for me, ur a genius!!!...thanks

[@AkhileshYadavOnly]

This is very useful information, great and very informative, I was looking for this. thanks

[@PSMedia29]

What's the difference between use tag manager to track subdomains and use directly the views at analytics?

[@dineshkalia3770]

i have a blog, and after some time i purchased domain and added to it my blogger account and its working. but i did not add my old URL or new domain to google analytics. so know i want to add it to google analytics. plz suggest me whole procedure.

[@nicamicas]

I was looking for this for my bilingual site. Thanks !

[@Orbitmedia]

Great timing!

[@MichealPrice]

Great info. Easy to follow. Needed this!

[@uzeirdalip9499]

Worked for me, thank you!

[@muhammadhammad6059]

You did not google analytics code in the subdomain, how is going to track the subdomain without the code?

[@jimbojombs]

To do this I thought I'd have to insert the javascript tracking code onto each head section of the website but I'm guessing that isn't the case?

[@jobbie7898]

I'm probably late to reply but I am sure the tag will need to be on every page you want to track. But when using a CMS or framework you can just add it to your tag and it will automatically load it on every page.

[@ndbing_]

Thank you. I can see the full URL now. But I don't see traffic from my subdomains. Is that because I config the tracking code incorrectly?

[@Orbitmedia]

Check to see if you have right code on the subdomains using the Google Tag Asistant plugin on Chrome.

[@azbamumbaiwala7096]

Should we keep the same Google Analytics tracking code for the main domain and the subdomain?

[@DimitriosMaroulis1987]

Hello! So we can add the subdomain website to the main domain by adding some filters or exclusions? I have the main site now (mysite.com), and I want to add the GA code to a subdomain e-commerce WordPress site (store.mysite.com).

[@brunolevi2661]

Loved it. Super concise and useful. Thanks for the vid :)

[@Orbitmedia]

Thanks, Bruno!

[@SariSuvanto]

Thank you for the advice. I have one question. When you have done the view according to these instructions, fbclid shows in your data even though you have made the adjustment that it would not. Just like without the view (where it is working). Is there a trick to fix this?

[@ateeqahmad]

add fbclid in the "Exclude URL Query Parameters " in the view Setting section. I think by now you will have already figured it out but just in case you haven't.

[@SariSuvanto]

Thank you Ahmad. That was done when asking the questing but it still shows fb-clicks. Noticed later it only shows it in live traffic. When viewing by page etc afterwards, fb-clicks are cleared. Learned to live with it. I guess there is no way to clear that out in live traffic.

[@ateeqahmad]

@@SariSuvanto, I am glad it got fixed to your satisfaction. Cheers!

[@russavery56]

Legend! Thank you dude!

[@SophiePloeg]

it only show in 'real time' but none of the other stats... ? help?

[@Orbitmedia]

Did you get it to work? Usually, it takes a little bit to see them in the other reports.

[@SophiePloeg]

@@Orbitmedia no not really, trying something else. Thanks though.

[@gunjin67]

Thanks so much, this is great!

[@robertleesilverdollars]

Question? Do You Use the same google analytics code from www.mysite.com on your subdomain. Thanks For Video

[@SigneiKoch]

Another idea is to create a Segment on the original View and Filter by Hostname (i.e. Advance Conditions > Hostname starts with xxx.website.com). In this case you'll not be showing the full URL but just narrowing data from the specific subdomain... I use this in a website that the subdomain is the language... en.website.com, pt.website.com, etc.

[@getwerkin2943]

That sounds interesting @signei - how would you do that?

[@SigneiKoch]

getWERKIN here’s a tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGSoq3xvqrBnaKs

[@natalyamaxumova8772]

Thanks!!!

[@yavarkhanonlinemillionaire6931]

love it did on my website

[@AdamSabla]

Thanks!

[@TestAccount-uu9vp]

thanks mate

[@MohamedAbdElhalim]

Thank you, Great (Y)

[@agarwalsunny4067]

this is not a right approach at all. This will track two users when someone move from one main domain to sub domain as tracking code will fire twice

[@Eskimoz]

Dingue !

[@namibiaholidaystourssafari2354]

Absolute bullshit because you now have TWO views. One for your main domain and one for your subdomain. Besides no tracking code in on your subdomain homepage implemented. Therefore no data!!

[@jedison2441]

Dang it... out of date.

[@CryptoQueef]

Thank you for this but I have 1 problem. The view is only reporting in 'Real Time' like in your video. If I go to look at historical data (Audience > Overview), it shows nothing. Any way to fix this? I'm using the same GA code on both main and sub. Is it that the view will only build data from the point of implementation?

[@tomasfloresbelaunde4327]

Very useful! Thanks!