SEF Advance incompatible with Google Analytics site search tracking?

11 years 6 months ago #6768 by BillyS
Paul -  That's an outdated version of 1.5, and you posted the site name too.  You should consider upgrading immediately to 1.5.26.

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11 years 6 months ago #6771 by ptiemann
Saka,
Yes it's in the URL but it needs to be a query string argument for Google Analytics to pick it off for site search analytics. You specify in the GA settings what the query string key is. For example the s in this querystring ?s=scroller. With the current urls, GA tracks every search term as a different page view so there is no way to aggregate the data.

Joomla tracks search terms it but without the associated analytics such as what region the user is from, and without the site tracking. For certain search terms, I want to know how many users navigated to the contact page or if they gave up.
Thanks,
Paul

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11 years 6 months ago #6772 by ptiemann
BillyS,
Thanks for the heads up. I'll let them know we should update.
Paul

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11 years 6 months ago #6773 by Saka
@ptiemann: OK, in SEF Advance for Joomla 2.5 it is in the query string.
I can change it for 1.5 version too although 1.5 is no longer supported.

Emir Sakic
www.sakic.net

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11 years 5 months ago #6803 by ptiemann
Saka,

How is the updated version coming?

Thanks,
Paul

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