Comments on: Display Search Engine Rankings (SEO) in Google Analytics

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:52:39 +0000

hello all,
My analytic skills are not as advanced, I have a question…

I’ve setup a new profile for my site and I’m beginning to see rankings on some keywords, but not all. I set it up a little under 24 hours ago. How long does it take to show the rankings for all keywords?

By: Sean Elkin

Sean Elkin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:33:17 +0000

I’ve long lobbied Google to create their own rank checking mechanism and charge for it, instead of of banning IP addresses or 3rd party services that task their servers with the same queries. They have the data, it’s quite obvious that rank checking is still an essential part of SEO (despite the “rankings are dead” camp). it’s great they are doing this, but it is currently less perfect than 3rd party solutions.

Why? It does not include Yahoo/Bing data (or outside U.S. if you’re doing international search) and it doesn’t have the reach yet (see the 3-5%) to be very useful or reliable (which, I know, is a strange word to use for any rank checker) as existing 3rd party solutions.

Andre, I wonder what you think about this solution vs your outstanding post that predated this. Looks like this indicates position and not page for google, but your solution has page capability for Yahoo and Bing (if I’m reading things correctly). Do you see a way to use above and apply to Yahoo and Bing too?

I spend a lot of time combining reports into one master spreadsheet (for SEO Audit phase) that shows keyword volume estimates, source & data on those words (GA, trellian, wordtracker, past traffic, brainstorming) + ranking on top 3 engines + urls ranking. In the end, it’s a wonderfully useful and powerful document. I have built a few macros to automate portions of it, but if we could get top 3 SE ranking data (position not page) built into GA reports…wow!

Sean

By: admin

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:35:29 +0000

Just as a quick update – it appears that around 3-5% of profiled web traffic is seeing this search update, and note that it is ONLY applicable to Firefox browser users.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:32:35 +0000

Very nice information. Thanks for this.

By: SEO Guy from Los Angeles

SEO Guy from Los Angeles — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:30:07 +0000

Thank you for contributing. I added your code to my google analytics account. I will report back my findings

cheers

SEO Guy

By: James from FaceySpacey.com

James from FaceySpacey.com — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:49:54 +0000

Hey everyone, what percentage of searchers are being fed this search update?

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:31:55 +0000

The ranking displayed is the ranking that was there when that visitor made the click. So if there are several positions during the time period when people click, you will have several positions listed.

By: Gennady

Gennady — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:31:10 +0000

What happens if the ranking changes within the date range? What position will be displayed?

By: New Google Referral String Will Allow You To See Rankings in Analytics | Renegade Search

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:31:06 +0000

[...] the rankings in your keywords report. Here is one of the posts that shows you how to set up the filters in Google Analytics [...]

By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:41:33 +0000

@Marco
Yes. This is one of the reasons we suggest you run this filter in a new, duplicate profile, so that you can see this data, without altering your “standard” keyword reports.