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Category — Search Engines

Cool Custom Report: Google Organic Rank dimension

Google is starting to record the organic rank in its referrer string. It takes about 3 minutes to turn that rank info into a WebTrends custom dimension you can use in any search phrase report.

May 14, 2009   11 Comments

Cool custom report: Segmenting by brandedness of search terms

All search terms are not alike. Here’s how to get WebTrends to give you site behavior data for different kinds of search terms, starting with a simple branded vs nonbranded term distinction.

September 1, 2008   No Comments

Adding new search engines to WT’s definitions

The new search engine Cuil was announced today. If you want to add it to your WebTrends setup, it’s very easy provided you can edit the WebTrends installation files. The file you have to change is called keywords.ini. Following is a how-to.

July 28, 2008   2 Comments