How to tell number of times Google search is accessed from a site

Discussion in 'Google' started by GPS Mapper, Aug 17, 2008.

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    I couldn't find a better forum for this; hope I'm in the right place.

    I have a Google search box (for my site or the WWW) on my site. Is there anyway I can tell how often it is used?
     
    GPS Mapper, Aug 17, 2008 IP
  2. abercrombie

    abercrombie Peon

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    tough question. you can use google analytics overlay feature and see how many times people click the Search box. but that's assuming people actually navigate their cursor to the search button and click because they can just type and hit enter.
     
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  3. GPS Mapper

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    Yeah, that's what I do; just hit enter.

    I'm wondering if there is enough use to justify using a different search approach that I can monetize. I don't think Google lets you tie their site search to your AdSense account, so I'm just giving them free traffic the way it is now, and who knows how much?
     
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    Yes, you can combine search with adsense, it is now one of the options in the adsense setup pages.
    Works pretty well.
     
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    The problem with this is that you can only view the stats for people who have done a search and then cliked on an ad, i think that what they actually want is to monitor the number of times a user uses the search box, and i agree that analytics would seem the only way. I find that 10% of my site income comes from the search function so it's not massive
     
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    are you sure? adsense reports 'queries' and 'clicks' separately for 'adsense for search'. Advanced reports then shows the most common phrases that were searched on, which is quite useful for deciding which pages to improve etc

    but yes, this method is no good for deciding whether to use it in the first place, only for monitoring it afterwards.
     
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    You could always try a server-side language or JavaScript to track the number of times someone leaves your site for that search page. It might not be an easy thing to do, but you could log that change into a database and pool the data for later.
     
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