Search Engine Parameters & Keywords
   

Several components of ClickTracks require a definition of search engines and the names of the parameters passed in with the referring URL. When ClickTracks shows a list of top search terms it has extracted this by examining each URL and determining if it comes from a 'known' search engine, and if so the name of the parameter that contains the original search terms / keywords.

The search engines are defined in the file 'SearchEngines.txt', in the Data directory. You can edit this file to add your own specific search engines if you wish.

The syntax is a tab separated list of parameters:

·Domain name, partial match OK  
·Display name shown in reports  
·Search parameter. If more than one separated by commas. This is the parameter picked up in the referrer that contains the keywords, e.g. 'q' for Google  
·Home page of engine  
·Search page of engine. ClickTracks will visit this URL with the search parameter set to a string if the user clicks this option in the UI.  

All parameters are tab delimited, with a carriage-return at end of line.

Sample Data:

google Google q,aq,as_q,query,p www.google.com www.google.com
googlesyndication Google content targeted q,p www.googlesyndication.com