How to Turn Google Analytics Into Your Own Rank Tracker Using Custom Variables
The How
Getting this properly set up was remarkably easy for me, and I have so very little programming knowledge, so I would imagine most wouldn’t have much issue. I used PHP, as I was working with a WordPress site, but I’m sure you crazy hackers can do the same in most any language.
Update: See Joost and André Scholten’s comments below for a JavaScript method of passing the cd= value
Step One – Extract cd= Value from Referrer String
I used this snippet to do this.
<?php preg_match("/cd\=(\d+)/",$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], $matches);
$str = $matches[0];
preg_match("/(\d+)/",$str,$matches);
$rank = $matches[0] ?>
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