The Flaw in Google Analytics "Goal Position Change"
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Recently, Google Analytics made an update to their Goal Conversion Tracking system that allows you to rearrange and change the position of your goals by simply selecting a different spot in a dropdown menu. At first glance earlier today, this new feature seemed to be an easy way to rearrange your goals to your preference so that you can see the goals that you want, where you them. But after testing it further I realized that is has a major flaw that you need to be wary of: Loss Corruption/Confusion of Goal History Data.
Reordering your Analytic Conversion Goals became too simple…

Change your Analytics Goal Positions easily by selecting another dropdown menu option
Why this is significant

