Log searches with Google Analytics?

[Lowkey]

It seems that you can track internal search queries on your page with google analytics.
In the Edit Profile Information you can toggle "Do Track Site Search".
As far as I can figure out, the "Query Parameter (required)" should be "searchword" and I've toggled "No, do not strip query parameters out of URL", but it still doesn't track.

Has anyone experimented with this?

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[alledia]

Hi lowkey

Sounds possible, but is there a big advantage over Joomla's default search logging?

[Lowkey]

It turns out that I was just impatient - the searches were actually logged, but it took a while for them to show up in Analytics.

alledia:
I haven't tried the joomla default logging in Joomla! 1.5, but the feature in 1.0.x isn't that impressive.
With google analytics, it seems that I have a few more options.

These are the options GA presents:
When did visitors use site search?
How do visitors who searched compare to those who didn't?
Which search terms did visitors use?
Which categories did visitors search?
Where did visitors start their searches?
Which pages did visitors find?

That seems pretty useful, but I haven't had much time to play with it yet.
In any case, if you're using GA anyway, there is certainly no reason not to use this feature as well.

[teddy]

Hi Lowkey, thank you for the hint!
Do you know if there is an advantage in using categories for the search (and in which case?)
and what about parameters to exclude? do you know a page to look into for such deep doumentation?
thanks

[philipabbott]

Hi

I am using Google Analytics on my site http://www.leicestercollege.ac.uk.

I have modded the search box to point to either an internal course search or the default Joomla search.

Joomla's search stats are fine for the site search but I want to use Google Analytics for the course search and the variable is not passed in the URL. Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to set up Urchin Tracker?

Have tried this on Google Analytics help but no joy > http://groups.google.com/group/analytic ... 2fd8?fwc=1

Many thanks in advance...

[Ladas]

The best answer to this question is here: http://getsatisfaction.com/google/topic ... ith_joomla

"rename /components/com_search/router.php to something like router.ignore.php so that it doesn't use SEF urls for the search... "

[D0gSoldi3r]

Well when it says this in Google Analytics below in the settings.

Query Parameter (required):
Use commas to separate multiple parameters (5 max)

I use the letter "q" without quotes or captials, instead of using "searchword"

with No, do not strip query parameters out of URL also.

I was instructed on a blog to do that some time ago and it works great for me and i can track all my searches through analytics, however i'm using a joomla module search which might make it more simple. The url to the search module i use is below if you don't already have it

http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/Joomla/go ... module.php