Comments on: Customising the list of recognised search engines http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/ Companion site for the book Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics by Brian Clifton Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:50:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Brian Clifton http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-11147 Brian Clifton Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:19:19 +0000 http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/#comment-11147 <strong>Tomas</strong>: thanks for the feedback. Your issue sounds very familiar to one I looked at a year or so ago. I was trying to identify search queries from Technorati that has a similar rewrite. To cut a long story short, I could not get it to work. You will not be able to manipulate the referrer string as this is a built in security feature of browsers to stop spoofing. I also don't recommend hosting the GATC locally and changing the code of utmr. Google has a monthly update cycle for the GATC, so keeping your own customised version up to date will be a nightmare for you! Have you tried some of the filter ideas I have posted on recently? http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2009/03/09/creating-the-prefect-trackable-blog-article/ http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2008/11/03/tracking-social-networks-with-google-analytics-using-filters/ A modification of these could be used to relabel your referrer to something else. Note, labelling as organic search will not work as that takes place before filter processing, but you could label it as something else. Let me know how you get on. Tomas: thanks for the feedback. Your issue sounds very familiar to one I looked at a year or so ago. I was trying to identify search queries from Technorati that has a similar rewrite. To cut a long story short, I could not get it to work.

You will not be able to manipulate the referrer string as this is a built in security feature of browsers to stop spoofing. I also don’t recommend hosting the GATC locally and changing the code of utmr. Google has a monthly update cycle for the GATC, so keeping your own customised version up to date will be a nightmare for you!

Have you tried some of the filter ideas I have posted on recently?
http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2009/03/09/creating-the-prefect-trackable-blog-article/
http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2008/11/03/tracking-social-networks-with-google-analytics-using-filters/

A modification of these could be used to relabel your referrer to something else. Note, labelling as organic search will not work as that takes place before filter processing, but you could label it as something else.

Let me know how you get on.

]]> By: Tomas Kapler http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-11067 Tomas Kapler Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:32:17 +0000 http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/#comment-11067 first let me tell you, that your book is great (got it in czech) About this - i'm using a variant of this (with local search engines) but i got a problem that one of very important search engine here rewrites the urls, so it is e.g. example.com/search/keyword instead of example.com?search=keyword I'm wondering how to solve it to show it in the report - i wondered about changing the referrer using regexp before calling analytics, but it is afaik read only value (for javascript). I think it should be possible using changing utmr parameter, but there is no public function for doing this. What would you recommend? first let me tell you, that your book is great (got it in czech)

About this – i’m using a variant of this (with local search engines) but i got a problem that one of very important search engine here rewrites the urls, so it is e.g.
example.com/search/keyword instead of example.com?search=keyword
I’m wondering how to solve it to show it in the report – i wondered about changing the referrer using regexp before calling analytics, but it is afaik read only value (for javascript). I think it should be possible using changing utmr parameter, but there is no public function for doing this. What would you recommend?

]]> By: Business Email List http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-10436 Business Email List Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:48:30 +0000 http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/#comment-10436 Very useful post How about adding google custom search engines to website. Very useful post How about adding google custom search engines to website.

]]> By: Brian Clifton http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-7812 Brian Clifton Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:33:14 +0000 http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/#comment-7812 *** This hack has also been updated for ga.js *** See: http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2008/09/14/customising-the-list-of-search-engines-in-google-analytics/ *** This hack has also been updated for ga.js ***

See: http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/2008/09/14/customising-the-list-of-search-engines-in-google-analytics/

]]> By: Paul Mycroft http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-7214 Paul Mycroft Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:22:20 +0000 http://www.Advanced-Web-Metrics.com/blog/2007/08/25/customising-the-list-of-recognised-search-engines/#comment-7214 Hi Brian, Why do I get a JavaScript error when installing the custom_se.js for GA file in the root? http://www.wickman-group.com/ "pageTracker is not defined" However, I don't get the error when installing the custom_se.js file for urchin.js. Hi Brian,

Why do I get a JavaScript error when installing the custom_se.js for GA file in the root?

http://www.wickman-group.com/

“pageTracker is not defined”

However, I don’t get the error when installing the custom_se.js file for urchin.js.

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