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# Troubleshooting your Google Analytics goals

Here are a few common issues that can occur with Google Analytics goals.

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**Are you tracking pageviews rather than completed actions?**

A typical scenario of that would be a registration goal. This is where a user submits a form on one page and then continues on to the thank-you page. Is this being tracked correctly, aka are you tracking the form page instead of the thank-you page?

**If there is no thank-you page after completing the form...**

You will have to create a custom event to track the completion of the form.

**Are you selecting the wrong match type?**

If you select **exact match** URL that will only match that phrase not with any parameters on the end of it. You can use **head match,** which will match the start of the URL. **Regular expression** will give you more flexibility when you're searching for a particular string within the URL.

**Another issue could be inconsistent naming**

If you set up an event goal to match the word email, that is only going to match that. It will not recognize e-mail or any other variations.

**If you're doing your matching correctly, it could be a problem with the filters in your Google Analytics view rewriting URLs**

This means that the URL you see in the browser might not be the URL you see in the Google Analytics setup. To check this go to **Behavior > Site Content > All Pages report** and see if you can locate the page there.

**The most complicated issue is cross-domain tracking**

This occurs if one user completes an action on one domain and then continues to another domain, suhc as a separate domain for checkout or subscriptions. This can result in the user being lost between the two domains. This is easily fixed with [cross-domain tracking](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10071811?hl=en).

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Check your goals in **Real Time** using the **Overview report**. This would allow you to see how the site is converting into a goal and if the site is converting into a goal when you click on the site.
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