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It’s now easier to set up Google Analytics Site Search tracking for your Custom Search Engine
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Google Analytics
Site Search
reports provide extensive data on how people search your site once they are already on it. You can see initial searches, refinements, search trends, which pages they searched from, where they ended up, and conversion correlation. In the past we admit that setup was a little challenging, but we’re happy to announce that now we’ve made it easy to setup Site Search tracking directly from your Custom Search Engine.
If you are already a Google Analytics user (and your site has the Google Analytics
tracking code
on its pages), go to the Custom Search Engine
management page
, select your CSE’s control panel and click on Google Analytics from the left-hand menu. We’ll display a list of your Google Analytics web properties so you can select one and tell us the query and category parameters that you want to track.
Once you save your changes, we’ll generate a new code snippet. Copy it from the Get Code page, paste it into your site and setup is complete!
You can then access Site Search reports from the Content section of Google Analytics.
Happy analyzing! If needed, you can find help with setup
here
and an explanation of the differences between Google Analytics and Custom Search statistics
here
. Let us know what you think in our
discussion forum
.
Posted by: Zhong Wang, Software Engineer
Submit Pagemaps directly to Custom Search
Monday, September 19, 2011
Custom Search users have long been able to create
Richer Snippets
by adding
Pagemaps
to their webpages. Today we’re enabling direct submission of Pagemaps via either
Sitemaps
or
On-Demand Indexing requests
. This means you no longer have to modify your pages to expose Pagemaps, or wait for Google to crawl your site to process them. This saves time when you want to make a quick change to your metadata. If you have data you would like to be displayed on your site, such as reviews snippets, you can submit it directly to Google instead of putting it in publicly visible markup on your pages. For added security, you can even choose to add a
private key
to your Pagemap and we will only serve it in Custom Search results when that key is provided.
We hope you enjoy the added convenience these new submission options offer. Let us know what you think in our
discussion forum
.
Posted by: Rui Jiang, Software Engineer
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