How do I find out the "search words" that lead to my blog? A lot of bloggers seem to know. Is there some code?
There are some blogs which say that such and such a keyword entered in some search engine led to their blog. I also want to know how the traffic to my blog gets there. Is there a script or some program I need to be a part of to know this?
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Valdis K
05 Mar 2010
joyaz711
05 Mar 2010
Most web hosting accounts include stats – reports showing all kinds of info about your visitors and where they came from and what they searched for to find you. Check your stats.
Hint: If you follow a link to a page (blog or otherwise), your browser usually sends a "Referer:" tag with the request – and that’s the URL of the page you came from. So all it has to do is snarf up that Referer: header, look at it, and parse out the query (for example, Google queries all look pretty similar and you can easily figure out the format).
So if it says "You got here because you searched for ‘shark hockey", hit the back button, and look at the URL of the page you camne from – it probably has shark" and "hockey" in it someplace…