Comments on: How to Enable Google Analytics Site Search for WordPress

By: Sean Davis

Sean Davis — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:50:28 +0000

Thank you! I need this. Following the directions given by Google was easy enough until it asked for the query parameter. I didn’t know what to do.

Much appreciated!

By: Aviva B

Aviva B — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:10:24 +0000

I know you wrote this a while ago, but I got to it because I had enabled site search, and nothing had ever shown up. I then tried recently to do my own search (yes, I took off my filter and disabled my Analytics Blocking Add-on so it would catch it), and still nothing showed up. Any ideas about what might be wrong?

Thanks!

By: Jeremy @ Marketing Web

Jeremy @ Marketing Web — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:25:14 +0000

Ha! I had put s= and that’s why it was not showing up.

It was so easy

By: Julius

Julius — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:20:13 +0000

To be honest I am not sure either. Why did you ignore the parameter ?s in the first place? If you are not sure whether it will work out then my best advice is to try it out.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:49:06 +0000

Those are perma-links via mod-rewrite; you need to tweak the GA javascript to insert the param as part of the page load. Or you can stop using perma-links for search.

A question on the Site Search. I have it integrated, but what about the ?s as an ignored param in the profile settings? For example, last month I have 3 content views of “blah.com/?s=LadyGaGa” which is a search term of course. So can I put the s both as an ignored param and as the site search param? I’m not sure that’s a good idea, but curious to know if it’ll be ignored in content but still recognized as site search?

By: Julius

Julius — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:10:07 +0000

That seems strange. How did you get it to be that way? Is it on the website you link to?!

By: Bjorn van der Neut

Bjorn van der Neut — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:32:41 +0000

Great tutorial but my search url is like this:
/search/tabletennis/

How can i
a) change wordpress so i get s=tabletennis
b) change analytics so it understands /search/tabletennis

By: Julius

Julius — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:40:01 +0000

Glad to David Well if you use WordPress then your search result page’s URL will look something like this http://andbreak.com/?s=your+search probably with some additional parameters. In this case s is simply the parameter to indicate that a search is taking place. And with Google Analytics you need to tell it when a search is taking place. So that’s why you need to enter s as the search query parameter. I hope this helps

By: David Radovanovic

David Radovanovic — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:41:15 +0000

Thanks. I always wondered about setting up “Site Search” and what was the query parameters. Still don’t quite get the different parameter values though. Why “s” ?

By: jules

jules — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:36:34 +0000

Thanks Ralph. I know what you mean. Sometimes it’s hard to draw some sort of information from these tools but I will write an article about it soon. I hope I can get you to the point where you understand why Analytics is such a better tool.