How to track search engine from where my website is accessed

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Hi everyone,
Is is possible that when someone search form my website in a search engine like google etc and i can track on website that from which website user clicked for my website link?

Posted 2-Jan-14 23:30pm

shoaibhassan404

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shoaibhassan404 3-Jan-14 5:35am

all i need is that search engine address from where my website has been searched

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ravikhoda · Answer 1 · 2014-01-03T00:30:00

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yeah, you can easily track things by using google analytics tool. you need to register your site with google analytics and they will provide you a small script of code which you need to add on every page. then you are done. next when you login to Google anylatics it will show you the Site report with lot of filter options.

Best of luck.

Posted 3-Jan-14 0:30am

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shoaibhassan404 3-Jan-14 6:55am

is there any alternative to google analytics?? i need that tracking information on my website's page where the visitor have arrived

shoaibhassan404 6-Jan-14 1:00am

Can anyone please provide me an alternative to google analytics? i need to get the visitors information like the last website from where user has been redirected to my website etc. all i need is a script that i can include in my website and get above mentioned information on my website. No matter whether this script is free or paid.

ravikhoda 6-Jan-14 4:16am

Try below links it may give you some idea,

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2051368/4-simpler-alternatives-to-google-analytics.html

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/google-analytics-alternatives/

ravikhoda · Answer 2 · 2014-01-03T01:09:00

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well you can try and check history using Javascript.

You can get the previous page URL using
window.history.back

however this will only give you the link of the previous page. you can not get other details like key words or browser or any other information

Posted 3-Jan-14 1:09am

ravikhoda

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shoaibhassan404 3-Jan-14 7:44am

Other than is, is there any script that i can use in my webpage and get the required information about visitor and the search engine he used to search my website?

Ankur^\m/ · Answer 3 · 2014-01-03T01:50:00

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HttpRequest has a UrlReferrer Property[^] which tells you the previous request URL that linked to the current URL.

I guess this is what you are looking for.

Posted 3-Jan-14 1:50am

Ankur^\m/

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shoaibhassan404 3-Jan-14 7:53am

But UrlRefferer Property is null in case of redirect, it only works with hyperlinks, am i right?

Ankur^\m/ 3-Jan-14 8:11am

Yes, you are right. If you are using Response.Redirect, UrlReferrer property will be null because a 302 status is returned to the browser and then the browser does a new get request to the redirected url.