Track your keyword positions in Google Analytics
Posted: January 21st, 2010 | Author: vinnie | Filed under: seo | No Comments »
Friends from the bleacherreport.com (great sports site btw) shared this tip with me a few months back, and now after having friends inquire about it, i figured it’s something to be shared.
It’s a custom report that you must create, just create these filters
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Step 1
Login to Google Analytics and Add a profile to an existing account.
Edit the profile settings and scroll down to the filters section. Add the following filters:
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Step 2 – Create filters
Filter 1: Organic Filter – just include organic traffic
- Type = Custom Filter
- Option = Include
- Filter Field = Campaign Medium
- Filter Pattern = organic
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Filter 2: Google Filter – just include google sources
- Type = Custom Filter
- Option = Include
- Filter Field = Campaign Source
- Filter Pattern = google
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Filter 3: Search Engine Visitors – only include search results with ‘cd’ in the referrer
- Type = Custom Filter
- Option = Include
- Filter Field = referral
- Filter Pattern = google.com/(search|url).*\bcd=\d*.
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Filter 4: Search Ranking – display results in user defined report
- Type = Custom Filter
- Option = Advanced
- Field A -> Extract A = Referral \bq=([^&]*)
- Field B -> Extract B = Referral \bcd=(\d*)
- Output To -> Constructor = User Defined $A1 | Rank: $B1
- Field A Required = Yes
- Field B Required = Yes
- Override Output Field = Yes
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Once you have some data in the account you should be able to view reports and go to Visitors > User Defined. Type in the filter Rank: [1-5]$ and you’ll see a listing of all your keywords that are in the top 5, you can change 1-5 to be 1-10 to see all keywords on the first page.
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