[SOLVED] Can you track which search engine users have come from?

[spires]

Hi Guys & Girls

 

Just a quick question.

 

How can you track which search engine visitors have

come from?

 

Also, is it possible to see what phrase they used when

searching for your site?

 

 

Thanks for all your help

[Jessica]

Check out Google Analytics, it's a really cool tool for that sort of thing.

[spires]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

 

I've got a few tools that track everything.

Webtrends is one of them.

 

But, It needs to be a bespoke system as it (so far) tracks

if they came from Email, Fax and Adwords.

I now need it to track if they came from a google

search, or another search.

 

I'm building a system that will display a unique code

on each page depening on where they came from,

which page there on and the date.

 

For Example:

Quote 21-3-A = cheap mobile calls - service.php - Adwords

 

This code is then quoted over the phone.

Its the best way of tracking convertions from keyword input

to sales.

 

Sorry for the long explanation. 

 

So, if you know of any good articles on how to do it,

that would be great.

 

Thanks

[trq]

Unless the refering site sends extra data (ie a url to your site looks like... http://yoursite.com/?ref=data) you can't do it. All you can do is check $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] and even that can be spooked.

 

By the time a user gets to your site, and previous requests data is long gone.

[spires]

OK, cool.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

I'll look into it.

 

[spires]

Hi.

 

I did a search on $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

and found these:

 

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

$datetime = mktime();

$useragent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

$remotehost = @getHostByAddr($ipaddress);

 

They might help someone else.