Can you filter referring keywords in Google Analytics by language?

[debi_zyx]

Hi All!

So yes, I know that you can see/filter the language that the computer or browser was set to (en-us, ru, fr, etc.), but if you look at the keywords used by visitors falling under "fr", some are in English.

Is there any way to get, say, just the keywords in Russian - regardless of what the visitor's browser language was set to?

Thanks!

Aviva

[TimKelsey]

Hi Aviva!

Glad I could help! I have one Thai client and use the same trick to get a general idea of how much traffic they are getting from Thai keywords.

Happy traffic analyzing!

Tim

[debi_zyx]

Thanks, Tim!

This is actually an incredible help, because I am dealing with languages that have different characters.  Since most languages have some characters that are more common, if you hit enough of them, you're going to include virtually every search phrase.  If I want to single out English (if my other language is Russian, Hebrew, Chinese, etc.), just use a|e|i|o|u|y  - and you've got it.  And if you're trying to exclude English and get the other language, just use a segment that excluded the vowels.

So... thanks!

All the best,

Aviva (I work with Debi)

[TimKelsey]

Hi Debi,

I can't think of a perfect way to solve this, but you might be able to set up some sort of advanced search once you're on the keyword report.

Russian gives you a bit of an advantage because there are characters unique to the language that you can search for. For example, you could create this advanced search: Include, Keyword, Matching RegExp, г|и|ф|ч.

See the attached image for a better explanation. In RegEx, the | character means "or". So you're basically saying "г or и or ф or ч" and the results will show any keyword that uses one of those characters.

Like I said, this isn't perfect. For all I know, there are many Russian words that don't use these characters, and this doesn't help you out with singling out English or French keywords. But maybe you can play around with this idea and find something works.

Tim

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