Low Googlesearch - search terms not showing up in Google Analytics anymore
Hi Low - I know you are setting up a new MBP but I need some help. I have had Low GS installed on www.gcx.com for years, and the search works great. We're doing some new SEO initiatives there and I was looking through GA and noticed that on May 6, 2014, our search terms stopped being recorded in GA http://d.pr/i/1cyDZ
I looked at your changelog and I don't see any changes since early 2014, so I think perhaps Google changed the way they capture this information. I looked at the settings in GA and the Custom Search account and they are all set to use q as the search param, which is what your add on sends to Google to get the results, but somehow its not recording the keywords. Are you able to address this?
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Low 18 Mar 2015 16:09
Hiya Chad,
Perhaps the tracking code changed? You'd need to explicitly tell Google that you're searching, like this guy did with Low Search, for example: https://gist.github.com/denvers/2881680
I'm guessing you need a similar syntax for the tracking code?
Chad Crowell 20 Mar 2015 05:25
Thanks, that was perfect. I ended up adding
ga('send', 'pageview', {'page': '/search/?q={exp:low_googlesearch:keywords keywords="{segment_2}" format="url"}','title': 'Search Results'});
and its working now. Thanks!!