[eluser]Andreas Krohn[/eluser]
I want to use Google Website Optimizer to do A/B and multivariable tests on one of my sites in order to improve clickthroughs etc. To be able to do a test in website optimizer I need to define a conversion page, ie the goal page I want people to go to. This page has to be an existing web page and can not be defined by a regular expression. Unfourtunatly the goal page is on the format domain.com/redirect/XYZ, where XYZ is a variable that tells my system where to redirect my users to. That means that I really need the pattern domain.com/redirect/.* for my conversion page, but as I just mentioned this is not supported by website optimizer.
My options as I see are:
- to start using GET parameters, ie domain.com/redirect.html?target=XYZ, which is frowned upon by CodeIgniter.
- to reach the redirect page via a form submitt and set XYZ in a POST parameter, damn complicated since this would require changes in a lot of places in my system
- using a cookie to set/get XYZ
- or to not use Google Website Optimizer and live with pathetic click through rates
Have anyone used CodeIgniter and Website Optimizer together and can share the experience?
Does somebody smarter than me have some other idea of how I can solve this?
