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How can i see queries what my visitors are searching for, in my website?
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Google analytics installed, but they are not showing. What additional things should i add there?
I need to see most popular search queries and add more content to these pages for panda.
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Hello,
Are both the tools you mention in the last paragraph above Google Analytics items that require Web Master Tools to be installed?
Thanks!
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Hi,
I would assume you are referring to Site Search - see what people are looking for one landed on your site ?!
If that is the case you need to setup Site Search in Google Analytics - it's not set by default and you also need to add a pice of code to the backend of the site - but that's a copy and paste job.
See more here: http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1012264
(it's easy to follow)
You can also look for setting up site search if you will need more resources.
On the other hand if this is not what you meant and you are referring to queries performed in Google when your site is showing up, for those you either need to check Web master Tools at Traffic -> Search Queries or if you have your Web Master Tools connected with your Google Analytics account, you can see the same data directly from Analytics under: Traffic Sources -> Search Engine Optimisation -> Queries.
Hope it helps !
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Can you post your search page URL ?
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