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I have all the images in my fine art site loaded in a small number of galleries, largely defined by what types/sizes I want to sell the images in. Every image is strategically keyworded and I have a set of virtual galleries that pull in images based on those keywords.

So there's a category "By Color" that has a galleries for "Red", "Orange", "Yellow", etc. Then there's a category "By Content" (needs a better name) with galleries for "Flowers", "Fireworks", "Landscapes", etc. There's another category "By Use" (again, needs a better name... I haven't even created this one yet I dislike it's name so much) that would have "Subtle Backgrounds", "Attention Grabbers", etc. These virtual galleries are the ones visible to visitors.

Obviously many images are in multiple virtual galleries, I think every one is in at least 2, probably 3 today.

But when I get an order in, how do I figure out which view they came to the image from? Did they come in looking for a green attention getting focal point painting? did they come in for a subtle background?

Is this something I have to mine from GA? Is it even possible to mine this from GA? As far as I can tell that's just going to tell me what people in general are looking at... not what Jane Doe specifically was looking at when she hit my infamous hibiscus and said "YES!" and clicked the buy button.

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The order details shows where the image came from, but since as you said its a virtual copy its misleading. I ran a test and it look like it only shows the original gallery, not the virtual gallery.

You could setup Funnels on GA, but I think they would be misleading because the sale actually comes from https://secure.smugmug.com/cart/ not your domain. In theory you could watch the path through the site and then wherever they were when the left your site AND you got an order you could assume they clicked Checkout. This would be misleading if they grabbed photos from multiple locations before they clicked checkout.

This might be a good feature request

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