It's took me a little while to tweak it properly and theres more to be done on minor engines, however the query's are back, and contain more results than they did before using the same log data, so it looks like it is all working A-Ok.
Many thanks
Chris
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See "http://www.analog.cx/helpers/index.html#conffiles"; for two different lists of searchengine commands that are more comprehensive than the one that is included in the distributed configuration file.
Your new command seems unlikely to produce the desired result: REFALIAS http://*google.*/*?* http://www.google.com/search?$1
The following command seems more likely to do what you want: REFALIAS http://*google.*/*?* http://www.google.com/search?$4
Hope that helps,
-- Duke
Chris ... wrote:
Hi all.
I've been using analog and Report Magic for a while now, even suggested a couple of things here and there to be added. I've gradually been becoming more comfortable with it, however have come accross a slight issue.
I like to keep the Refering Site report tidy as a report which is flooded with google.co*.* isn't of any use to me. :
1. http://www.google.com/
2. http://search.yahoo.com/
3. http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
4. http://www.google.ca/
5. http://www.google.de/
6. http://216.239.53.104/
7. http://jornada720club.blogspot.com/
8. http://216.239.39.104/
9. http://www.google.co.jp/
10. http://www.google.co.uk/
Too many Googles there for me, I'd like to keep an eye on the smaller referers in the to 30 so roudinding them all up into http://www.google.com/ irrespective of what TLD or search argument it comes from is ideal.
What I've been doing up until recently is manually adding refalias for each of the google entrys (yahoo, altavista etc) e.g.:
REFALIAS http://www.google.lu/search?* http://www.google.com/search?$1
This worked fine, All Googles were listed on the referal report as http://www.google.com/. Yahoo as http://search.yahoo.com/ and so on. However this made the analog.cfg exceptionally large and difficuly to maintain for all url combinations and arguemnts used by the different search engines.
Next I tried using wildcards to round up the information e.g.: REFALIAS http://*google.*/*?* http://www.google.com/search?$1
This worked brilliently, it reduced the .cfg file size drastically, and means that it is more accurate at rounding up the engines. However it has had a side effect. Having changed all the refalias's I use to wildcard statements and generated the report, the Search Word / Query reports are virtually empty. My site with many thousand of search engine referals went down to literally 12 items & 12 requests on the search query report.
All the SEARCHENGINE entrys are intact as originally found in the sample .cfg file. I have also added one or two of my own to the list.
If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can fix the Query report and keep the wildcards in the refalias's I would be very greatful. I use both sets of data quite heavily, and the appeal of using wildcards is just too strong.
Many thanks
Chris
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