Google Analytics - Goal Funnel Setup with Dynamic Urls

Question

I've setup an goal funnel with dynamic urls in Google Analytics, but I am not sure if I did it correclty.

Funnel Steps:

1. Home Page, ^/
2. Pick First, ^/compare
3. Pick Second, ^/compare/([^/]+)/
4. Compare, ^/compare/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/

The goal-URL is (regex) ^/go/.* which is a redirect link, for eg www.domain.com/go/comparedcompany

Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

I would actually reconfigure your regexes as follows:

Step 1: ^\\/$

Step 2: ^\\/compare$

Step 3: ^\\/compare\\/.*\\/$

Step 4: ^\\/compare\\/.*\\/.*\\/$

Goal: ^\\/go\\/.*

(Also, as a note, using GA's regex engine, you don't need to escape your slashes, but I normally do it anyway.)

The reason why I went with .* instead of [^/]+ is because you probably won't get a page like /compare// (if you do, then you have other things to worry about :-P).