👍 Important: This article is for Google Analytics 3 Universal Analytics. GA3 has been deprecated. Checkout articles for Google Analytics 4
In under 2 minutes we will get your website sending data to Google Analytics, so you can see what your customers are searching for. Yes, seriously 2 minutes!
Get Started
👉 Note: If you haven't gotten Google analytics and Google Tag manager setup, then go do that first. Then comeback here to get your site searches working.
First and Only Step
Go to Google Analytics => Admin => View Settings. Scroll down and do the following
Turn on "Site search Tracking"
Set "Query parameter" to "query"
Turn on "Site search categories"
Set "Category parameter" to ''z,keywords"
👍 ProTip: After setup, it will take 2-3 hours before you start seeing results show up in your analytics.
That's it your done...have a look below to check your work!
😃How Cool Is That !! Go on and treat yourself to something nice!