Tracking search engine referrals with Analog

[count_zer0]

I've used Analog for years to analyse my site stats - it's a great program of the old school. Although it's very configurable, I've never been able to get it to give me useful information on search engine referrals. Perhaps some of you Analog gurus out there can help. To explain:

I use the search engine definition file from [science.co.il] which is very extensive. This is used by Analog to generate the search query report:

reqs: search term
----: -----------
439: widgets
321: custom widgets
213: widget manufacture

This tells me who is searching for what, but I want to know where they are coming from. Basically I need the Referrer Report, filtered by the definition file above, something like:

reqs: search engine
----: -----------
678: www.teoma.com
478: search.msn.co.uk
403: dir.yahoo.co.uk

ignoring any referrals not in the configuration file.

Is this possible? If so, how? I've combed the documentation to no avail...

<edited to make table clearer>

(edited by: count_zer0 at 8:45 pm (utc) on Feb. 18, 2002)

[hasbeen]

I'm no Analog guru, but don't you have to tell it to give you a referral report? In my .cfg I have the lines

REFSITE ON
REFSITEFLOOR 1r
SEARCHQUERY ON
SEARCHQUERYFLOOR 1r

and I get referral totals for all referring sites, including search engines and keyword referrals. Maybe they're on by default, but I didn't see it in your .txt file.

Hope that helps...like I said, I'm no wacko...I mean guru.

[count_zer0]

Thanks for the reply hasbeen. I am using

ALL ON
REFSITEFLOOR -100r
REFFLOOR -100r
SEARCHQUERYFLOOR -100r
SEARCHWORDFLOOR -100r

in my config file. This gives me the top 100 referrers/search queries - but no totals. I have to paste the output into Excel and SUM the column - uggh!

And surely there must be some way to view referrals by search engine?

[hasbeen]

rather than

reqs: search engine
---- -------------
678 : msn.com

are you getting

reqs: site
----: -----
678 : search.msn.com?

or are you not getting search engines listed even in your referrals table?

Maybe I'm off base on what you're needing.

[chiyo]

countzero. We user separate .cfg files to filter for things like search engine, dates, using INCLUDE/EXCLUDE lines etc.

Havent tried it, but it may well be possible to have one cfg file for every term you are interested in.

Then again i may be offbase as well.

[count_zer0]

Thanks guys. It appears from your reply chiyo that there is no easy way to pull search engine referrers (as defined in SearchQuery.txt) out of the Referrers report. Shame. I'll just have to create a monster config file...

[mole]

>I'll just have to create a monster config file...

up to date config files relating to search engines for analog can be found at [analog.cx...]

or look in the analog documentation for more ideas at [analog.cx...]

Simon