Optimizing for Google Onebox

Knocking the competition down the results page.

How do I track sales through OneBox vs. froogle.google.com?

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While this seems initially like it’ll be a simple task, OneBox ends up being very difficult to really track down the sales from. The same feed, which many times has a parameter of ref=base or xsrc=base, ends up feeding Google Base, Froogle, and OneBox results.

What this means is you can’t totally trust your analytics. They’ll easily find those that arrived at a page with that parameter and track the sales, but they don’t typically break things down the way you’re going to want to here.

February 8th, 2007 Posted by Brian Mark | Analytics, podcasts | 3 comments