How do I track comparison shopping engine traffic with keywords?
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I want to track comparison shopping engine traffic with keywords in Google Analytics. So, How can I get it done?
I am using Google Analytics URL Builder to track traffic which are associated to comparison shopping engine.
My product page URL load with following format when some one click on comparison shopping engine.
Please, see format of product page URL
Now, I have problem with tracking as follow. Please, see this Google Analytics traffic sources screen shot to know more.
Comparison shopping engine traffic is going to track with other section and not indicate keyword.
I want to track keyword which help me to understand more about my product feed performance. It will help me for better understanding regarding keywords which was searched by my customers to land on my website.
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I want to add response on my question which I found from external website after raising question over here.
Of course GA will not track the keywords because they are not present in the tagged url of the landing page and the CSE are not recognized as search engines to GA. You can try to modify your tracking code to list those CSEs as search engines in your GA account.
Check here:
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiSearchEngines.html#gat.GA_Tracker._addOrganicThe first parameter will be the CSE name and the second parameter will be the query parameter of the CSE when people search on them. For example when you search on google, the keyword appears in the url of the search result after "q="
So the code will be _gaq.push(['_addOrganic', 'google.com', q]);
Likewise you can do for all your CSEs. Just go to the CSEs and search to find the search query parameters.
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I want to give more idea for other comparison shopping engine like TheFind Merchant Center.
I want to track keywords for visits of comparison shopping engines like TheFind, GoShopping and similar one. I have submitted my product feed to TheFind merchant center with following URL tag.
Google analytics track keywords as (not set) so How can I fix it?
You can see more details on attached image.
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This is the best source I have found on the issues.
http://www.firstrate.co.nz/blog/how-to-track-google-shopping-traffic-reliably/
Here is an SEOmoz article:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/track-google-bing-shopping-as-referrer
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Okay. I am not sure it can be done without setting up a custom tracking for it. Maybe include some tracking in the product feed URLs. I need to look into it more but it doesn't look like Google uses a different sub domain than regular search.
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Yes, I want to track keywords which was searched on Google shopping for my products and land on my product page.
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So... just to clarify? You want to know which keyword was used for the person to find the comparison shopping engine (which is third party) - which ultimately lead to a click to your site? Or are you talking about tracking Google Shopping?
Do you own www,vistastores.com?
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