How do you track Google organic traffic through your site?

[Bladewire]

So a Google search leads to a hit to my site. How do I track where that hit went after arriving and if he converted?

I would guess set a cookie with a unique identifier by keyword but how? Then track that cookie through analytics? but how?

Any ideas are really appreciated. I want to get down to the wire technical with this. thanks

[freemarket]

Google analytics.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by freemarket

Google analytics.

I used Analytics Goals URLS to track keywords, paths & conversions I need more specific info. Analytics is purposely to vague for their obvious greedy reasons.

[freemarket]

Bump for a good question.

[Tom_PM]

I could tell you, but people who troll me might realize I know my shit and that would spoil the fun.

Put simply, the query string used is generally available, so use it plus a time stamp as a unique identifier in your link. Without the query string then you'd need some wizardry I guess.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Tom_PM

I could tell you, but people who troll me might realize I know my shit and that would spoil the fun.

Put simply, the query string used is generally available, so use it plus a time stamp as a unique identifier in your link. Without the query string then you'd need some wizardry I guess.

Thanks for response I appreciate it.

Ah trollers, the wanna be somebodies, who wanna know something of value, of the internet. Fuck them.

Tom_PM I could spend a few hours and decipher your response then spend a weekend trying to implement what I thought I learned or you can PM me and I can pay you to save me time & strained brain cells to implement a few lines of code or a couple scripts. Yeah?

[96ukssob]

Google hides the search query for the most part. some people have hacks, but seldom work, especially if you are logged into a browser AND logged into a Google product, like Gmail.

Link: http://moz.com/blog/google-hides-sea...teboard-friday

So if you are trying to track by keywords to conversions, good luck. You can however get insights from Google webmaster tools as far as rankings and kws.

However... seems like you are asking if someone comes to your site, how do you know the PATH or pages in the process that lead to the conversion/goal/event? If you setup your GOALS in analytics, then you can look at the reverse path...

Under "Conversions" click "Goals" then click on "Reverse Goal Path" and that should give you the easy answer you are looking for.

[Tom_PM]

I would follow bossku69 advice as he is much more knowledgeable than I am with this stuff. If you can retrieve the search query then it would be pretty easy really and could use a script to work with it. I was only thinking Adwords and didn't know if they hid that data these days or if it's just organic. Kind of a shameless move for them, but they're Google and look out for #1 pretty well.