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Changing location of of footer_required

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<?php Loader::element('footer_required'); ?>


Is it a big deal if I move this into the header?

I want to make sure the only thing that ever gets put in here is the tracking info before I do this.

Recently Google has changed things so that their tracking code is to be placed within the HTML document's HEAD tag. I've been getting a ridiculously low bounce rate and I suspect this change could have something to do with it.

Thanks
 
Remo replied on at Permalink Reply
Remo
it's always up to you what you enter in the footer content (it's a field in the dashboard).

If you don't put any stuff in there which must be in the footer this isn't going to case any problems.
Saltwater replied on at Permalink Reply
Saltwater
Did you manage to fix the issue with the suspicious bounce rate? I am having the same issue.
ScottC replied on at Permalink Reply
ScottC
yeah just copy out elements/header_required.php

open up and insert your code before the closing head tag.

save it to siteroot/elements/header_required.php

it'll use that instead and your tracking code will be in the head.
Saltwater replied on at Permalink Reply
Saltwater
Actually (at least in my case) this is more likely a Google issue with the Navigation Summary report:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords/thread?tid=1bf8d7e9af...
Galapogos replied on at Permalink Reply
Grificonius,

My odd bounce rate was due to someone in the office manually inserting the Google Analytics code in the middle of the page template (!!!) for some reason.

So I had two instances of Google Analytics being called which confused it big time and caused that insanely good bounce rate (among other things). If you're still having that issue check your code and make sure it's only being called once.
tallacman replied on at Permalink Reply
tallacman
You could always hard code your google code into your header with the elements > header.php file.
Steve