Getting refering key words.

[big_jimmi]

Hi Folks

Im currently using 1and1 as a hosting company who provide there "web statistics" tool. Whilst it displays the refering url for traffic it doesnt seem to include the keyword that was used to search for the site i.e. all i see is www.google.co.uk/search rather than

[google.co.uk...]

Is there anway to get this information?

Many thanks in advance for any help!

[jatar_k]

you need to get your hands on your raw logs

[a_chameleon]

This is a subject I could really use some help on, too, jatar_k.

I can get my web hosts's raw log data, but I don't seem to see what I want, which big_jimmi is looking for as well.

Here's what we are hosting on:

MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322

Could you help me a little, maybe post an example of what I should be looking for..?

TIA, very much.

.

[coopster]

Hardcore guys like jatar_k run unix

tail -f /var/logs/access_log

commands and stare at the screen for hours. Kind of like Neo in the Matrix ;)

What you are looking for is the GET request information being passed to your server logs from the search engine link that was clicked to access the page on your site. Note the "q=" part of the URI in the first message? That signifies the beginning of the query string entered at the search engine's search display.

[NavyCS]

Try out [Specifics Removed], great tool for tracking referals and the words used in search engines.

[edited by: Receptional at 9:59 am (utc) on Jan. 29, 2007]
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