Tool for extracting search queries
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Hello,
Does anyone know of or have a tool that takes referrer URLs coming from Google which extracts the search query from the URL string?
Thank you
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Thanks but as I mentioned above I am in Germany so cannott use analytics at all, hence my need to find another way to do this
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Actually, with Google Analytics you can create a filter to see the search queries that users typed to land o a specific page of your website. It's very simple:
When you have the tracked website selected, on the left column in GA you will see "Custom Reports". Click on it, then click on "Create New Report". From the blue Metrix box select "Site Usage", scroll down to "Visits" and drag and drop it in the first empty "Metrix" box on the right. Now click on the green "Dimensions" Box, click on "Content", select "Page" and drag and drop it in the empty Dimension box. Click on "Traffic Sources", scroll down to "Country/Teritory" and drag this in a sub-dimension to also be able to see it by region.
Hope this helps, good luck!
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Hey thanks, yeh was just wondering if anyone had a ready made tool as would make things a bit easier. The plan is to use the referral URLs from logfiles to look at search queries that are sending traffic to specific areas of the website (directories/sub-directories etc).
In Germany so cannot use Analytics and webmaster tools does not allow you to filter search queries to different areas of websites
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Coding this yourself (or having it done by your developer) is a pretty simple job. It requires not much more than reading the 'q' parameter from the URL, which in PHP for example can be done by reading the $_GET['q'] variable.
For what purpose do you plan to use this parameter?
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Maybe you could describe what you need that data for? Google Analytics normally records that data for natural search visits, but if you are looking to dynamically insert the keywords that requires some code work.
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