Comments on: Tracking Keyword Ranking Position with Google Analytics

By: Stephen Racano

Stephen Racano — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:43:51 +0000

This is a great post. I had just previously customized my page position script variables so they read cd= and q= rather than the original q= and start=. Going to try what you are suggesting.

What I would really like to do is also capture the source= as well which captures whether the click is coming from web, news, images, video, or maps. Anyone capturing this source along with keyword and position?

By: Alison Shuman

Alison Shuman — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:04:00 +0000

Thank you! Just when I think I know what I'm doing in analytics, I find something like this that takes it to a whole new level! Thank you for such clear instructions and photos. I can't wait to start seeing the traffic!!!

Now, if only what I write about (real estate appraisal, granite) were a little bit more interesting!!! :-)

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:58:36 +0000

Great post! I'm a little late to the party. Just so I'm clear, the order of filters are:

1. Include Organic SERPs
2. Include Google SERPs
3. New Google Referral URL
4. Construct Ranking String

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By: Boot Camp

Boot Camp — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:51:22 +0000

Great article. This will help us evaluate keywords so much!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:35:28 +0000

Thanks for this article. Please let me know if you figure out the Google Base/Shopping test from the post above.

By: SwitzerBaden

SwitzerBaden — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:51:02 +0000

Step 3 is including information from the organic results from google.com. Has anyone had experienced with implementing this for other locations as well (ie google.fr, google.de)--maybe like this:

google.(com|de|fr|co.uk)/(search|url).*\bcd=\d*

or maybe this would adulterate the results by mixing positions from different data-centers. Any thoughts?

By: mads H

mads H — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:01:45 +0000

fantastic.. if this can do what i think, then there is no need to pay any of the expensive software tools as IBP.. do you agree?

can you please type in the text for filter 4 in plain text so we can type it in?
i cant see some of them on my screen! :(

thanks again!

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:52:29 +0000

Thx Chris but when I drill down to user defined value for traffic sources>search engines and I got a (not set)result. So for its been about a day and I got less than ten visits. I followed the directions to a tee but should I make any adjustments?-Eddie

By: Bernardo

Bernardo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:15:20 +0000

Hi Cris,

I have doubled checked my profile configuration, but all I get is a blank page statement like this: keyword(page:)

Any thoughts?