Google Analytics Site Search
Articles and resources giving detail on how to set up Site Search capability within the Google Analytics interface.
- It's now easier to set up Google Analytics Site Search tracking for your Custom Search Engine
- Posted by Zhong Wang, Software Engineer. Google Analytics Blog, Wednesday, September 28, 2011. "Google Analytics Site Search reports provide extensive data on how people search your site once they are already on it. You can see initial searches, refinements, search trends, which pages they searched from, where they ended up, and conversion correlation. In the past we admit that setup was a little challenging, but we’re happy to announce that now we’ve made it easy to setup Site Search tracking directly from your Custom Search Engine..."
- Tracking Zero Result Searches in Google Analytics
- by Justin Cutroni. Analytics Talk, September 8, 2009. "... Google Analytics Site Search reports. There's amazingly actionable data in those reports. But they're missing one vital piece of information: searches that don't produce any results. Why is this important? Don't you want to know when visitors search and don't get any results? Zero result searches can help your identify missing content on your site or a problem with your site search engine..."
- Google Analytics Site Search: Setup Options
- Written by Benjamin Mangold. Google Analytics Results, Posted on Thursday, May 21, 2009. "There are a number of ways to setup Google Analytics Site Search depending on the way your website functions and the URLs your search function creates..."
- Using Site Search Features in Creative Ways
- Posted by Caleb Whitmore. Google Analytics Blog, Tuesday, April 14, 2009. "The Google Analytics Site Search feature is a powerful tool for analyzing visitor interest and behavior on your website, but that's not all it is good for. Using Site Search in some creative ways can leverage this tool for advanced multi-dimensional analysis equivalent to being able to set multiple, simultaneous user-defined segments..."
- Internal Site Search Reporting
- By Caitlin Minteer, Google Analytics Support Tech. Google Analytics Blog - An unofficial Google Analytics Blog from ROI Revolution, August 11, 2008. "Google Analytics provides you with a lot of information regarding the way visitors search to get to your site... If you are using an internal site search tool (for example Google's Custom Search engine) you can track the searches that your visitors place on your site. By doing this, you can gain valuable insights into what your visitor is thinking, by actually having them tell you!..."
- Setting up Google Analytics Site Search
- Written by Benjamin Mangold. Google Analytics Blog - Mangold Sengers, November 13, 2007. How to set up Google Analytics site search on your website.
- UPDATED: GA On Site Search Setup
- by Justin Cutroni. Analytics Talk, November 17, 2007. "I've updated my post about setting up Google Analytics On Site Search Reporting. Since its launch I’ve learned a few new things and wanted to pass on the information..."
- Site Search Now Available
- Posted by Alden DeSoto, Google Analytics Team. Google Analytics Blog, November 2, 2007. "We recently announced several new features. Beginning today, all Google Analytics accounts have access to the first of these features to be released: Site Search. It's currently only available if your language preference is set to English; it will be available in all languages soon..."
- GA On Site Search Pt. 2: Reporting & Usage
- by Justin Cutroni. Analytics Talk, October 16, 2007. "This is part two in a two part series about the new GA on site search reports. In part one I discussed the setup. There is a tremendous amount of information in the new Site Serch reports about ow your visitors interact with your search engine. But it goes way beyond measuring how many searches occurred for a keyword. The new reports actually tie outcomes to searches providing insight into what product sand content your site visitors are looking for. But enough babble, on to the screen shots..."
- GA On Site Search Pt. 1: Overview & Setup
- by Justin Cutroni. Analytics Talk, October 16, 2007. "This is part 1 in a two part series about tracking on site search with Google Analytics. In this post I outline the setup and configuration you need to perform to create accurate, usable data in the new reports. If you’d like to get a look at the reports, you can skip to part 2, where I talk about the reports and how to use them..."
This category last updated: 29 September 2011