Comments on: Stop Google Analytics From Stealing Your Valuable AdWords Keyword Data

By: Fundraising Cards

Fundraising Cards — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:30:17 +0000

I spent some time (like a poster above) trying to figure out how the big G was keying up my keywords. This post has saved me a ton of time. Next step is to “wait and see”…

Thanks so much!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 May 2011 11:29:54 +0000

Linda,

I agree. Thanks again!

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:55:52 +0000

Hi Chris, I believe this solves the problem and the hack is no longer necessary. It doesn’t hurt to keep the filters if you’ve already added them and compare profiles to see if they reconcile…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:00:02 +0000

Hello,

With the new functionality in Google Analytics: Traffic Sources>Adwords>Keywords>Matched Search Query> additional dimension of Keyword or Match type, is this filter still needed nowadays? If so, what are the benefits of using it? Thanks!

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By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:53:02 +0000

Hi Attila, I believe the profile must have the custom variables within it, you may need to duplicate your settings to the new profile with the keyword filter.

By: Attila

Attila — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:25:35 +0000

Hi. Great post especially that I am looking for a way to combine my exact search terms with my custom variables.

My most important question: is this going to help me combine the search terms with the my custom variables? The problem is that I can find the exact search terms in the adwords section of the analytics but I can’t combine them with my set custom variables. Analytics allows the combination only with “keywords” where as the exact search terms are not shown just the keywords on which I am bidding.

If I create another profile do my custom variables going to be shown there too?

Thanks in advance for the help.

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:26:42 +0000

Yes. Some people actually do search with “keyword+keyword” (the old schoolers), but that in essence is the same as with a space. If you’re using Google’s content network that includes other search engines, this might explain.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:20:53 +0000

Linda, thank you for your reply. I could not find anywhere on the web how to read the results. The traffic is only coming from Google Adwords from the Google Search Engine, so I thought it would have some different meaning. You are saying, I can just read the %20 or the + as the same thing?

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:03:18 +0000

Hi Richard, the %20 is HTML encoding for a space. Some search engines will report the query string with + and others with %20, unfortunately.