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A Google Analytics Trick Everyone Should Know
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Published: Nov 11, 2008 - 08:13 am
Story Found By: Ramkarthik 1188 Days ago
Category: SEM
Google sucks when it comes to telling people what search queries your PPC traffic arrives from.
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from zigojacko 1187 Days ago #
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I have been using these filters ever since working with Analytics and PPC and it proves very useful for discovering exactly what search terms were used to attract traffic.Would recommend applying these filters if you don’t already. :)

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from rfergie 1187 Days ago #
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Thanks for the sphinn Ramkarthik. I can’t understand why Google don’t have this as part of their default analytics setup, especially now that extended broad match will match so many odd things so getting a good set of -ve keywords is so important.

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from zigojacko 1187 Days ago #
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There are other variations you can use to display similar stats, I guess Google leave up to the user to apply whatever type of filters necessary. I think it would be handy if they included a documented list of useful filters with the installation process however...

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from rfergie 1187 Days ago #
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What other filters would you recommend?I’ve set up stuff to only show traffic in subdirectories and to ignore internal traffic.

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from Ramkarthik 1187 Days ago #
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rfergie, credits to you for writing the article. I’m not that good in this. Found your post interesting and it taught me something new.

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from MikevanderHeijden 1186 Days ago #
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Thanks for this interesting article, been looking into this in the last couple of days and found this pretty interesting.

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from m-bison-flaming-torpedo-attack 944 Days ago #
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I fell asleep halfway through reading this ... Zzzz

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