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Omniture: Capture Download Link Text (code by @ad0815)

Recently I had a client request to capture the link text associated with PDF downloads from their site. I scratched my head for awhile and finally decided the best option was to ask the Twitter community for help. My good buddy Andreas came to the rescue. The Goal Capture ‘The Dude – A Complete Biography’, from the [...]
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Referring Domains by Page & Page Views by Source (answers for @DanAdcock)

How can I see referrers to a specific page? The first thing you will need to do is create a correlation between Page Name and Referring Domain. 1. Log into SiteCatalyst 2. Access the Report Suite Manager found under the Admin link. 3. Select the report suite(s) you want to create the correlation for. 4. Click [...]
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10 Questions with Jorgen Sorensen – @OmnitureCare 2.0

Back in February I decided to do a series of ‘10 Questions with…’ posts. My first post was with Ben Gaines who helped make @OmnitureCare what it is today. Many of you know that Ben has moved on to a role in Product Management and so I thought who better to ask my next [...]
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Query Parameter Fun

Nine times out of ten if I’m pulling a parameter out of the query string, it has something to do with campaign tracking. s.campaign = s.getQueryParam('cid'); However, when automating your measurement implementation, there is often a wealth of information that can be pulled from the query string. If you are making use of the [...]
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Omniture Report Suite Copy Checklist

The following item(s) should be evaluated: ▢ Internal Filters. Although Internal Filters are copied when using the ‘duplicate an existing report suite’ feature, Internal Filters will most likely need to be updated to reflect the new site URL(s). Contact Omniture Support: ▢ Date Warehouse ▢ GeoSegmentation ▢ VISTA Rules ▢ Discover ▢ IP Exclusions ▢ Visit/Visitor availability in Campaign, Products, Custom Traffic, and [...]
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Bring Back the Green!

Call me a sentimental geek (apologies Ryan Adams), call me naive, but I miss the Omniture I used to know. I understand things change and that clinging only brings suffering but why kill off a brand that worked so hard to establish itself? Each day that goes by, I see Adobe bastardizing the [...]
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Understanding Test & Target’s ‘Deactivating an Mbox’ Functionality

As I was browsing the July 22, 2010 Product Release Notes from Omniture (Adobe Online Marketing Suite Powered by Omniture), one line stood out from all the rest. Users with approver privileges can deactivate requests from specified mboxes, or activate previously deactivated requests. One of the biggest selling points that optimization vendors like to use is [...]
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Omniture Image Request Length

Last week I saw several Tweets about the best way to determine the Omniture Image Request length. I’m not sure this is the “best way”, but this is a simple bookmark that I created to return the size of the request being sent to Omniture. javascript:alert(eval('s_i_'+s.visitorNamespace+'.src.length')); NOTE: This code only works for [...]
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Launch Omniture Discover 2.9 from the Desktop

1. Save the Discover JNLP file to your desktop 2. Edit the JNLP file using your favorite text editor 3. Delete the ‘token’ argument 4. Insert a ‘password’ argument, below the ‘user’ argument, and enter your password 5. Save the JNLP file. Double click your desktop icon. That is all there is to it.
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It’s 10:00 PM, Do You Know Where Your PPC Traffic Is?

I was recently working on a project to optimize a landing page that was targeted at paid traffic. The test results didn’t reveal anything of much interest however I was able to uncover a hidden gem in the data. By segmenting, by channel, the path behavior of visitors hitting the paid landing page, [...]
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