Thank you so much for this. I'm sure there's a lot to like about GA4, but they've made it sooooo difficult to do a lot of the things I was used to doing in the past with hardly any configuration at all.
Is it possible to add this type of parameter: tx_kesearch_pi1%5Bsword%5D? You mentioned in the video that GA4 doesn't like this kind of parameter with special characters. Thank you
Nice tut Julius. Tried this with a PWA but "view_results_search" event doesn't seem to be fetched automatically by GA4, let alone additional query parameters. Would you advise to use the same event name "view_results_search" when using an alternative method (not enhanced measurement) so maybe GA4 AI is able to understand your data? Same if you had to fetch manually additional parameters, is it good practice to name them "q_whatever" or name it what you want?
The benefit of naming the event view_search_results is still unknown. But it won't hurt if you named it that way. As for q_whatever, I doubt that you must name it exactly like that. I'd name it whatever I want
Hi @AnalyticsMania, thanks for the wonderful video but in my use case I want to track the user-specific search keywords report. I mean, Is there any way that I can push some user identifiers and then log all the keywords on that identifier? It will understand me to user-specific behaviour. Thank you again for the wonderful insight.
Thank you for the video. However my query is tour-search which includes dash as you stated on your video. How can i track the site search in this case? I googled a lot but couldnt find a solution.
Quick question for anyone who might have some insight: My site exploration report is reporting empty search fields as a search term. So for every valid search term there is also a blank search term being counted.
Hi Julius, I’m trying to take advantage of the Ad Content parameters and want to create a dashboard in Looker - Google Data Studio to be able to drill down to these metrics, but I don’t see the dimension available and don’t see how I can add it to the report. Any way to do this with GA4 import data?
Thanks for this, I learnt alot. Can you tell me is there a way to get unique search terms, the equivalent to unique search terms in UA Analytics? I've read there is a unique_search_term parameter, associated with the view_search_results event, but I cant' find a way to pull it through into the reports
I'm looking at tracking some data filters on a page that does not utilise a site search, it just has the information that you can then filter. Would this be done in the same way, using site search tracking in GA as opposed to anything else?
Julius, quick question, I've tried to get revenue per search_term but I only get 0 values, no idea on how to solve this. Any insight will be highly appreciate it.
Hi! Do you have any idea how to track the conversion rate on a search term? I'd like to optimize site search, but I need results before & after i've made adjustments. Please do let me know, all the purchase and conversion metrics don't work in these reports.
amazing video..... i have a question. I have 2 different search term. S - stand for products and wcfm_store_search for vendors in my local market place. so I set it as custom query search and right now I can track products and vendors in report. but I wanted to create 2 different report, one to be shown only products and another only vendors. are there any adjustment to be done or not possible? sorry my English I am from brasil, my anglish is not very good
I just discovered that on my site the search query params looked like this: ?keyword=t-shirt&search= and nothing was being tracked in GA4. The problem here was the empty search query param and that came from the submit button having name="search", removing that and it all started working.
Perhaps I am missing something, but I don't get the point in having up to 10 query parameters if in the report all the parameters values are lumped together in the same table/report... If I have different search boxes I might want to distinguish them...
hey, what if my parameters have special characters? For example my search parameter looks like this: tx_kesearch_pi1%5Bsword%5D I am not able to change that. But GA4 does not allow to save it.
In GA4 - no. You would need to setup a custom event tracking and convert uppercase to lowercase letters in Google Tag Manager. Or you can export data from GA to Google Sheets (For example) and then work there.
Hello, Am able to do it and I can see the result in debug mode also, but I wanted to know how can find out the list of query searched by individual users or all users, or is there any way to create a report containing the properties of search_result parameter? so I can see who searched for what.
@@AnalyticsMania thanks for your reply,but i have seen a comment from another video,some one replys that make a new property with advance option and with universal option active..so i have applied and blocked my views,i have got older version :D once again thanks for replying very fast instead of other youtubers!
