Comments on: Google Analytics and Google Image search: revisited

By: Traffic from google image - WebProWorld

Traffic from google image - WebProWorld — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:13:48 +0000

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By: brunoherrero (Bruno Herrero)

brunoherrero (Bruno Herrero) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:02:04 +0000

@intercastilla Aqui tienes una solución: http://bit.ly/13NiM

By: Google Analytics: keywords fehlerhaft, Bildsuche vergessen | tagSeoBlog

Google Analytics: keywords fehlerhaft, Bildsuche vergessen | tagSeoBlog — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:31:05 +0000

[...] hat mehrere Artikel zu dem Thema geschrieben, am wichtigsten für mich war dieser hier: “Google Analytics and Google Image search: revisited“. Er beschreibt, knapp verkürzt, dass es sich tatsächlich um einen Fehler von [...]

By: Nerd Alert: Track Keywords from Google Images via Analytics « AfghanAnt – Still Dreaming…

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:03:51 +0000

[...] So I was doing some research on Google Caffiene changes and I noticed that keywords have become increasing more important to where you rank on organic search. This isn’t in itself a bad thing but some of your traffic is coming from Google Images you have no way of knowing how your visitors got to your site. Well after some light reading, I came across a blog article that addressed this very problem over at Yoast.com. [...]

By: Ion de la Paclisa

Ion de la Paclisa — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:53:21 +0000

Finally I think I managed to get it work...
After I checked the "Track extra Search Engines" in the plugin options it appeared in the analytics code
"... wp-content/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/custom_se.js" type="text/javascript">

You never said that on the plugin page.. you just kept on putting links...

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:54:15 +0000

How do I know if this is recording data? How will it show up in my analytics account - under which section? Thanks :)

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:45:08 +0000

By it's nature, obfuscated code is hard to read ;) Can't you just minimize it and NOT obfuscate it?

By: Eoghan

Eoghan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:43:14 +0000

Joost, thanks for the quick reply. If it was only white space removal I would be fully confident however it also obfuscates the Javascript code, hence my doubt. Do you think that the obfuscating would make it work any different? A quick look at the code the compression tool pumps out might give some indication, unfortunately I don't have the javascript knowledge to make such a call...

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:33:40 +0000

Eoghan: it would probably work just as well! There's a lot of whitespace etc. in the file...

By: Eoghan

Eoghan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:32:19 +0000

Joost, Thanks for making this script available. I have been using it for several months now. As I am going through an effort to reduce the size of my website I ran the 9kb custom_se.js script through the compressor at http://javascriptcompressor.com/ and the compressed version is just over 50% smaller. Do you know if there would be any problems with this smaller version? Would it work as the original version?

By: webdesign

webdesign — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:32:51 +0000

i tried the code as well !! it worked fine ! you can see every referer !! i even added a few of my own.

By: Rhoda

Rhoda — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:22:02 +0000

Hi,
I would like to say that I converted one web site to the new ga.js for Google Analytics. I also converted the custom_se.js file listing the search engines. I now see images.google.com but only as a referral. Clicking on the listing does not lead me to the keywords as it does with the organic listing for images.google.com in the old system with the urchin.js. In the old system I also have image listings from other engines too all called organic which will lead to keywords by clicking on the organic listing.

Not sure what the problem is.

Rhoda

By: Kristjan

Kristjan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:09:16 +0000

Hi,

All these improvements are great, but could you tell
the visitors if all this works with new google tracking code at the start with red color or something. Saves a lot of buzz.

Does your image search work if I change search engine list according to ga.js
pageTracker._addOrganic("search_engine_name","query");

Cheers
Kristjan

By: homicidal

homicidal — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:16:28 +0000

hi Joost,
An excellent script, I read it this morning and set it up today, and already am I seeing the hits coming from image searches enter in the 'search engines' section rather than the 'referring sites' section, which makes everything a lot more clearer (ie bounce rates, exit rates are generally higher for image searches). I run a small NSFW-ish blog :P with a lot of celebrity images so I attract a lot of image search hits.
Amazing actually that Google sofar hasn't put this functionality standard in Analytics, they should take your script and give you credit for it!

Thanks again, a new big fan of your blog! (counts as a conversion! :)

By: Image search keyword tracking with the new Google Analytics - Analytics - Joost de Valk’s SEO Blog

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:03:49 +0000

[...] with ga.js, tracking the keyword people used in image search is a lot easier than it was in the old version, as changing the referrer info doesn't involve rewriting an entire function anymore. You can simply [...]

By: Mitico

Mitico — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:19:04 +0000

I have included your scripts but Analytics continues showing images.google (referal). Any idea?

By: Domus

Domus — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:37:00 +0000

Thank you very much!

By: George

George — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:05:50 +0000

Thanks for that info!

Now I wonder what I did to cause all my images to drop out of the Google Image search results.

Blog images are fine (blog is in a subdirectory of my main site), but all the images from my main portfolio site are no longer in GIS when they used to be on the first page for the same keyword searches.

The hunt goes on I guess. Thanks again!

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:54:56 +0000

@George: "I read somewhere that when 301 redirecting you should leave the old content up for a few months, which I didn't do - I thought that was what the redirect was there for)."

You were right and what you read was NOT true.

By: George

George — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:53:27 +0000

One quick tip for us part-time coders out there: make sure you change, in the code above, the "www.example.com" to your own domain! I noticed my stats were dropping off and I finally went back and looked at the code - I realized I never updated the example.com text to my own domain!

I made some other mistakes that hurt my Google Image search in general (not sure exactly why, but I read somewhere that when 301 redirecting you should leave the old content up for a few months, which I didn't do - I thought that was what the redirect was there for).

I am hoping that renaming the image files and pages was what hurt my image search results, and that they will eventually be reindexed. I wish I would have found your mod_rewrite for underscores to dashes first! I did need to rename some files anyways.

I guess when you learn this way you never make those mistakes twice!