Quick Guide to installing SmartTarget
The Getting Started tutorial describes how to quickly set up and install SmartTarget.
Before you begin
The Quick Guide requires you have:
- A fully-functioning SDL Tridion Content Manager and Content Delivery system—see the Quick Guide to installing SDL Tridion.
- Experience Manager running on a staging Web site—see the Quick Guide to installing SDL Tridion.
About this task
Installing SmartTarget is split into 5 main areas:
- Installing SmartTarget on the Content Manager
- Installing Fredhopper
- Installing the SmartTarget Web service
- Configuring the Content Deployer
- Setting up the Web site (IIS)
- Installing SmartTarget Experiments
Step 1—Installing SmartTarget on the Content Manager
Procedure
Step 2—Installing Fredhopper
Before you begin
Make sure you have JDK 1.7 installed and have set JAVA_HOME in your computer environmental variables.
Procedure
Step 3—Installing the SmartTarget Web service
The SmartTarget Web service is what is used for the communication between Tridion Content Manager and Fredhopper's index server.
Procedure
Step 4—Configuring the Content Deployer
Procedure
Step 5—Setting up the Web site (.NET Web Application)
Procedure
Step 6—Installing SmartTarget Experiments (.NET)
The procedure for setting up Experiments is summarized below:
Procedure
- Set up Google Analytics—to track Experiments running in your Web sites, you need to set up a Google Analytics account and create a development Project.
- Install Google Analytics Provider on your Web sites to collect data and on your SmartTarget Web service to retrieve the statistics data displayed in the Targeting Dashboard.
- Configure tracking—Views are tracked on the server as soon as the Content Variant is rendered and a conversion is registered when a user clicks on a link. You need to configure a handler on a .NET platform so that links are tracked and redirected.
- Configure Analytics—the
<Analytics>element in thesmarttarget_conf.xmlconfiguration file specifies configuration settings relating to Google Analytics and your Google developer account.
Results
For detailed instructions, see Setting up Analytics.