Integrating Google custom search in GA internal search

[andelu]

I have some problems integrating my google custom search into my google analytics. I want to see the internal searches on my site. A search string on my site looks like this:

[domain.dk...]

I have tried to insert ?cx= and UTF-8&q but it does not seem to work. Can anyone tell me what to do?

[cgrantski]

I'm not sure, but I think Google Analytics documentation has quite a lot on this. Did you check?

The setup is entirely different from what you are doing. It's quick and easy.

The stuff I saw may have been for Google Search Appliance and not the service-type offering that I think you have. But I believe both are documented.

[tonynoriega]

in the settings screen, under the site search area, where you enter the query parameters..

just put cx

i have the same thing on my site

i.e. www.example.com/index.asp?id=

www.example.com/index.asp?userType=

and i just put id,userType into that field that asks for the parameters no question marks or equals signs.

[Skardhamar]

If im not mistaken you should enter "q", seems like that is the search-query for your website.

Wasen't it a search for "vvs"?

[andelu]

Yes the search was for vvs

[tonynoriega]

it looks like ther are several query parameters right?

cx, cof, ie, q, sa.x, sa.y, sa

i would put all of those no?

[Skardhamar]

andelu, just enter q as the parameter then

[andelu]

Yes it works with q - thanks a lot :-)

[cgrantski]

You might want to keep digging through the G documentation for internal search and Google Search. It's possible you can get even more. For sites that use the Google Mini Appliance for search (not free, but incredibly cheap for what it is), you can change a setting in the Mini console that will deliver the number of terms found, the previous search term if there was one, and other great stuff. And GA has reports set up to take advantage of this extra info. The sequence of search terms for a visitor is my favorite --- you can see the refinements they make on each search. It is unbelievably informative about how visitors are using search and your site.

There was one article about this on an analytics blog (Avinash maybe) last year, then nobody seemed to pay attention to it. Weird.

Anyway, I don't know if any of this is available for the free service, but it's really work looking for because the payoff is very nice.

[andelu]

cgrantski - thanks for the info :-)