Tracking Google Image Search In Google Analytics
Today I modify the google analytics tracking code in sokubag.com, for tracking the traffic from Google Image. Main Code is as follow:
//handle google images search referrer
var ref = document.referrer;
if ((ref.search(/google.*imgres/) != -1)) {
var regex = new RegExp(“\.google\.([^\/]+)(.*)”);
var match = regex.exec(ref);
_gaq.push(
['_setReferrerOverride', 'http://images.google.' + match[1] +
unescape(match[2])],
['_addOrganic', 'images.google', 'q', true]
);
}
Note: place this code before _setCustomVar( if using setCustomVar ).
Refer: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=7731f9d0e198f11e&hl=en
Today I find many methods is not work. For example: push['_addOrganic', 'images.google', 'prev', true] , then add filter.
This method don’t work now. Because google image search url has change now, for example : www.google.com/imgres?q=XXXX. So we must change the tracking code.
