Jun 09
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Add Microsoft Bing to Google Analytics default Search engines list.
About two weeks ago Microsoft launched their new new search engine called Bing – http://www.bing.com. One the surface it is simple and attractive to look at. It also has some familiar search options that we see in Google. It is still not yet scientifically proven how effective Bing is, nor if it will be a real competitor to Google. We do know that Bing is already taking a sizeable part of the market share away from Yahoo!.
As web site owners and especially if you have an ecommerce site, you need to know where your traffic is comming from to assist your strategy of investment, adverts, Search Engine Optimisation etc. This is usually done with software such as Google Analytics or default software in your CPanel of your web hosting.
Within the popular Google Analytics, Bing will appear in your statistics only as a referring site. We want to share with you this quick fix so that Google Analytics can incorporate traffic from Bing under the Default Search Engines list.
In your code on your site you will need to add this line
pageTracker._addOrganic(“bing”, “q”);.
The Google Analytics page and further details are here. When Google release the completed patch we will notify you and give any tips and instructions that are required.
