Google Analytics internal Site Search - Destination pages dispaly Search results

[Tug-Agency]

Hi,

Im having a bit of an issue with Google Analytics internal site search, I am able to currently track the search terms through my website internal search but when I click onto destination pages I just get the search result page.

When clicking destination pages I would expect to get the pages on which the user ended up after the results page, instead I just get the results page which is pretty much useless ?submitsearchXXXXXX

hope you can help, look forward to your response.

Thanks,

[Tug-Agency]

Hi Erica,

According to this paragraph on GA http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75966 you should be able to see what page searchers ended up on after doing an internal search.

Basically all your analytics destination page image shows is the search page page that users ended up on, which basically only gives you the same information that the search term page does. For example you can see that 2 people ended up on your search result page for the word 'osborn' and if you click on search terms there will probably be two searches for 'osborn'.  I assume what you really want to see is what page they went to after, that they felt was most relevant to the internal search results 'osborn'?

Does that make sense?

Thanks,

[EricaMcGillivray]

So this looks to be a problem not with Google Analytics (GA), but how your site search functions or possibly how you set up your on-site search in GA. It should show you what search results page people searching end up on (see my screenshot, which is of my own comic book blog).

GA is either ignoring some of your parameters that contain the search term OR your search has a process that shoots a different URL first and then redirects to the final page.

Can you give an example of the URL on a search on your site?

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[Tug-Agency]

Hi,

Please see the attached screenshot.

It is for "in-site search destination pages", I would expect to see the page where users ended up after using the internal search function, but instead I get the URL's of the search results.

Thanks

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[EricaMcGillivray]

Can you take some screenshots of what you're seeing?