Find out what search terms visitors find you with.

jumpenjuhosaphat · 04-03-2007, 04:55 AM

I found this when browsing the blogosphere this morning. It's a site that tracks hits from search engines. It tells you what search engine sent visitors, and it gives the search term that they used to find your site, and the time.

You need to place a small bit of javascript on each page between the body tags that you want to track. It's much easier if yours site uses a templating system.

www.hittail.com

Did I mention it's free? Well, I have several sites that I want to track, and plus it's worth it, so I am going to buy the membership for $5.00 a month.

techjournal · 04-04-2007, 12:43 PM

Nice find!
Have signed up and added their tracking script to my main page templated for my blog site.
Results are instantly live, works very well.
The free service is for up to 100,000 hits per month which will cover me for now I think!

Thanks for the info

dadaas · 04-09-2007, 08:37 AM

so for free you can track only 1 website?

Mike Levin · 04-09-2007, 09:19 AM

You can track as many websites as you like for free. Completely free, no limits. Premium service has added features.

Internetwiz · 04-09-2007, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Levin

You can track as many websites as you like for free. Completely free, no limits. Premium service has added features.

yeh but im getting confused with the premium too the usual thing

solidghost · 04-10-2007, 06:34 AM

Is it more accurate than other webstats programs?

jumpenjuhosaphat · 04-10-2007, 06:37 AM

This isn't a webstats script....It is more specific....It tells you what search terms are being used to find your site, and at what time those terms are being searched. As far as stats go, this is far better than Awstats is.

Bagi Zoltán · 04-10-2007, 06:48 AM

Jumpen, is it better in your opinion than the google analytics service?

Comenius · 04-13-2007, 07:43 PM

It's different from Google Analytics, in that it's 100% focused on keywords, and helping you to find out over time what keywords are more popularly used to find your site.

Their angle is that by focusing on the lesser used terms and creating content for them, you can gain more traffic overall.

midlandi · 04-13-2007, 08:23 PM

Great post and very useful info. I will definately give it a try

eprosumer · 04-16-2007, 10:46 AM

Awstats is annoying it doesnt give you times or Which search engine gave you the hit!

jethrotul · 04-16-2007, 02:09 PM

With ranks.nl you also have your key-wordsanalyzed. Are they similar?

webomania · 04-16-2007, 02:36 PM

Wow..Nice offer!!! I'll give a try. Thank-Q

Mike Levin · 05-04-2007, 08:36 PM

In regard to free vs. premium (actually, plus), there's just a few things, like having your suggestions emailed to you, an RSS feed, ability to run on https, and an analysis of whether the code is installed correctly that sets the plus service apart from free.

dessign · 05-05-2007, 01:22 PM

You can build your own tracking script. You can use PHP to get the "Referer" parameter form the headers.
The "Referer" returns the address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to your website.

The returned referer will look like this:
"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=yiJ&q=iwebtool&btnG=Search"

By splitting this string you can easily get the searched keywords. (iwebtool in this case)

A script like this won't take more than 10 min to build.

I admit that some tracking services are more accurate than this script, but I consider that my website statistics should be kept private. I don't like others to know what websites are bringing me most traffic or for what keyword is my site found on search engines.

04-03-2007, 04:55 AM	#1
jumpenjuhosaphat Forum Admin Contributor Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Denver Posts: 4,459	Find out what search terms visitors find you with. I found this when browsing the blogosphere this morning. It's a site that tracks hits from search engines. It tells you what search engine sent visitors, and it gives the search term that they used to find your site, and the time. You need to place a small bit of javascript on each page between the body tags that you want to track. It's much easier if yours site uses a templating system. www.hittail.com Did I mention it's free? Well, I have several sites that I want to track, and plus it's worth it, so I am going to buy the membership for $5.00 a month. __________________ Storage Sheds Lost Forum

04-04-2007, 12:43 PM	#2
techjournal Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 14	Re: Find out what search terms visitors find you with. Nice find! Have signed up and added their tracking script to my main page templated for my blog site. Results are instantly live, works very well. The free service is for up to 100,000 hits per month which will cover me for now I think! Thanks for the info __________________ Techjournal - The Random Blabberings of an IT Manager

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jumpenjuhosaphat Forum Admin Contributor Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Denver Posts: 4,459	Re: Find out what search terms visitors find you with. This isn't a webstats script....It is more specific....It tells you what search terms are being used to find your site, and at what time those terms are being searched. As far as stats go, this is far better than Awstats is. __________________ Storage Sheds Lost Forum

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Comenius Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 25	Re: Find out what search terms visitors find you with. It's different from Google Analytics, in that it's 100% focused on keywords, and helping you to find out over time what keywords are more popularly used to find your site. Their angle is that by focusing on the lesser used terms and creating content for them, you can gain more traffic overall. __________________ Teach English Overseas \| Learn English Online

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jethrotul Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 158	Re: Find out what search terms visitors find you with. With ranks.nl you also have your key-wordsanalyzed. Are they similar?

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05-04-2007, 08:36 PM	#14
Mike Levin Newcomer Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2	Re: Find out what search terms visitors find you with. In regard to free vs. premium (actually, plus), there's just a few things, like having your suggestions emailed to you, an RSS feed, ability to run on https, and an analysis of whether the code is installed correctly that sets the plus service apart from free.

05-05-2007, 01:22 PM	#15
dessign Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 173	Re: Find out what search terms visitors find you with. You can build your own tracking script. You can use PHP to get the "Referer" parameter form the headers. The "Referer" returns the address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to your website. The returned referer will look like this: "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=yiJ&q=iwebtool&btnG=Search" By splitting this string you can easily get the searched keywords. (iwebtool in this case) A script like this won't take more than 10 min to build. I admit that some tracking services are more accurate than this script, but I consider that my website statistics should be kept private. I don't like others to know what websites are bringing me most traffic or for what keyword is my site found on search engines. __________________ Link Exchange Directory - Join a growing link exchange network of professional websites! Link Exchange Forum - Resources and information regarding link exchange.

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