{"id":897,"date":"2012-08-25T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=897"},"modified":"2012-08-11T08:52:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T14:52:38","slug":"google-analytics-goals-and-forms-on-google-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/897","title":{"rendered":"Google Analytics Goals and Forms on Google Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently put together a website for my father&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seesaw1942.com\/\">new book about World War II<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/780\">choosing Google Sites was a slam dunk<\/a>. \u00a0I choose a neutral theme, set up a few pages, uploaded some images and logged into Go Daddy (where my father had purchased his domain name) and set up DNS. \u00a0Easy peasy.<\/p>\n<p>Two issues came up. \u00a0One minor and one major.<\/p>\n<p>First, there is no easy way to point the bare domain at google sites using Go Daddy&#8217;s tools. \u00a0So seesaw1942.com can&#8217;t be redirected to www.seesaw1942.com. \u00a0Minor bummer, but just make sure all the marketing contains www.seesaw1942.com<\/p>\n<p>I set up a form to capture email addresses for people who wanted to be informed when the book was actually published (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1478311711\/\">it is now!<\/a>). \u00a0I was interested in playing around with PPC to drive people to the website, but wasn&#8217;t able to set up a goal in Google Analytics to measure signup success. \u00a0(So I didn&#8217;t end up setting up PPC.)<\/p>\n<p>I looked around and didn&#8217;t find anything that would help with this. \u00a0Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/google-forms-analytics.com\/\">article about goals and Google Forms<\/a>, but the writer&#8217;s form lives on their own server, which gives them more latitude than someone working with Google Sites.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any idea how to do this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently put together a website for my father&#8217;s new book about World War II, and choosing Google Sites was a slam dunk. \u00a0I choose a neutral theme, set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53,33,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-google-apps","category-useful-tools","category-web-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}