See which Google TLD organic traffic is coming from in GA
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Hi all,
I'm working with a client that is marketing to English speaking ex-pats in Thailand. I have a suspicion that many of these ex-pats are searching through google.com (or .co.uk) instead of google.co.th.
In Google Analytics (or any other tracking tool), is there a way to see which country-specific Google domain organic searches are coming from?
Thanks,
Tim
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Thanks! This looks like it should do the trick!
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Thanks for the response, but I'm not sure that will work in my situation. The country will show up as Thailand no matter if the visitor used google.com or google.co.th. Maybe I'm doing a bad job of explaining my situation.
Let's say we have two visitors, both located in Thailand:
Visitor 1 - searches on google.com for "beer delivery bangkok"
Visitor 2 - searches on google.co.th for "beer delivery bangkok"
Both would appear in GA with country = thailand, source = google, keyword = beer delivery bangkok. I want to be able to see that one came from google.com and the other from google.co.th.
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AndieF has certainly given you the easiest method there, and the one i would recommend myself. However if you do want the actual URL then you could use advanced filters.
This resource by Santa J Achille shows some pretty cool tricks you can use to get not only the Top Level Domain but also the Keyword and Campaign to show in analytics. I've used it before and found some useful insights. Just a note in the copy and paste code section there is a missing \ before the first question mark in the second referral field, so just add it in or analytics will tell you its an invalid regular expression.
If you like the look of this or fancy making a few of your own / editing it, there are also some very useful guides on how to use regular expressions from Moz and my personal favourite from Luna Metrics.
One more thing to note, if you do decide to implement this filter make sure you do it under a new profile.
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Sure can! Well.. the country in which people search in, but that's probably a good indication.
- Go to Traffic Sources > Search > Overview
- Change the "Primary Dimension" to "Source"
- Change the "Secondary Dimension" to "Visitors > Country / Territory"
Should all be good. To just see organic searches, do the same but with "Traffic Sources > Search > Organic" instead.
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