On Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:29 AM [EDT],
HQWEB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We use the search terms report a lot. Can you tell us how to produce
statistics on 0 results search terms?
???
What do you mean by "0 results search terms"? If you're talking about an
external search on google, etc, then there's obviousy no way to tell what
search terms didn't lead to your website. If you're talking about an
internal search engine, then the only way that information about how many
results your search engine returned would be if your search engine generated
that information, either in its own logs, or by redirecting the user to a
URL that contained that information. Bear in mind that (external) Search
reports rely on Referrer information, and, by definition, only count search
results that the user clicked on. Your site might show up on the list of
URLs that google produces, but if the user doesn't click on that link, they
won't show up in your logs.
The Internal Search Reports, on the other hand, report on the actual queries
made against your search engine, and don't tell you anything about whether
users actually used any of the links generated by by your search engine. If
you want to tell how successful interal searches actually are, you really
need the search engine to measure that for you, the iformation doesn't reall
exist in the access logs that Analog analyzes.
Aengus
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