I might have screwed the email up as I posted it to another list at the same
time, Sorry about that.
Is it possible to extract the keywords from a referring URL coming from a
search engine? The biggest problem I see is that every search engines
referring string is different. I guess I could try to detect which SE it's
coming from and then run a specific procedure to strip out the key words.
Not sure how efficient this would be though as I think SEs are always
changing the way they output their search string. Any ideas on this... could
I maybe use the log files in some way. Any ideas...
Below is how I see the referring links from the particular SE. Thanks for
any advice on this.
MSN Search String
http://search.msn.com/pass/results.asp?RS=CHECKED
<http://search.msn.com/pass/results.asp?RS=CHECKED&FORM=MSNHM1&v=1&q=&q=My+K
eywords&cp=1252> &FORM=MSNHM1&v=1&q=&q=My+Keywords&cp=1252
Google Search String
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient
<http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=My+Keyw
ords> &ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=My+Keywords
Yahoo Search String
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Key+Words
<http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Key+Words&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&cop=mss
&tab> &ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&cop=mss&tab=
Overture Search String
http://www.overture.com/d/search/?type=home
<http://www.overture.com/d/search/?type=home&mkt=us&Keywords=Key+Words>
&mkt=us&Keywords=Key+Words
Neal Bailey
Internet Marketing Manager
UGA-Association Field Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bailey, Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:34 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; CF-Talk
Subject: Keyword Tracking?
Hello folks...
I am about to start up a new project that includes building a site statistic
application for our websites. I know you are probable thinking why not use
the many that exist already like Webtrends.
The main issue I am faced with is that we have 15 thousand websites that are
actually all the same site. What we have are 15 thousand agents that have
custom configured websites, they basically go into a studio area and
configure all their settings from layout/design, color, content, links, and
a few other things they can add on the fly, then their website is created
for them once the finish the setup.
So what I would like to do is store all the referrer links coming to each
site and build a chart for each agent that will tell them where their
traffic is coming from and what keywords people are using to find their
sites.
So I am looking for some insight on where to start with this. I need a way
to strip out all the key words from a URL and then store them in a db for
reporting. I have found something on CFLib.org but it only gives me keywords
Google referrers. Does anyone have any ideas on code that will tell me the
keywords coming from all search engines?
Thanks for any input.
Neal Bailey
Internet Marketing Manager
UGA-Association Field Services
E-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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