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GCLID

by Western Grizzlin'
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Hey All,

I know that when you come from Adwords, you've got a GCLID=something.

Does anyone know if Yahoo & MSN have a similar parameter that I can get?

How about when a visitor comes from Google natural search results or Yahoo natural search? Is there a way to tease that out with PHP?

Thanks a lot for your thoughts.
#gclid
  • Profile picture of the author Bruce Hearder
    You can get the data by looking at the referer header tag that is sent.

    Sure it can be faked but if its coming from G! or Y! then its unlikely..

    Something like :

    $referer = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] : '';


    The resut will look something like :

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&=my+search+term&aq=fa

    Now you can tell where it came from, PLUS, the keyword they typed into the search engine as well!

    Hope this helps

    Bruce
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    • Profile picture of the author Western Grizzlin'
      Wow, that is a nice trick. I take it you could tell whether the visitor came from natural search or adwords based on whether there was a keyword provided in the header tag?
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