Google Blog Search fixes referral keywords

During the first ‘24 hours’ of live beta, Google’s Blog Search was a nightmare for keyword tracking. Some of you noticed some weird referers showing up in their counter-tools. All this was caused by the redirects from the search results from Blog Search. This meant that anyone entering your site was leaving a referal from the redirect from Blog Search (are you following me still?)

Simply put. Most statistical packages are keen to intercept the referring (‘How did you get here’) page. Especially the search parameters of Google that come with it. Google’s Blog Search simply masked its existence by replacing the keywords (?q=my+search) with the destination (?q=http://www.thinklemon.com/). Throwing off your tracker.

See the rumblings.
But as promised by Blogger Buzz the redirect would be gone. And eventually it did.

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One Response to “Google Blog Search fixes referral keywords”

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   November 2nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm

   Search engine marketing is overcoming conventional SEO. That\’s the trend, like it or not….

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