SEO Position Plus: Log Your Exact Google Rank with Google Analytics

We've been working hard on SEO Position over the last few months and the latest version has been in use by Stomper members for a while now. With the announcement of updates to the Google referral string it's now important to update the script and there's some serious new features. SEO Position Plus tracks more types of referrals than the original script. All the categories logged to Google Analytics events are prefixed with SEO.

(Google | Yahoo | AOL | Live | MSN) Page: tracks page number of referrals from different engines Google Site: Distinguishes subdomains & verticals like news, reader, corp, etc. Google TLD: Find you average ranking by page number by Country Google Images: Pull out keywords, traffic flow, etc. from Google image referrals

Mark at MivaMerchant wrote up a great tutorial (Stomper Members: See my video in the portal). So that's all cool and useful, but the last item "SEO Google Position" captures the exact rank of the result clicked on Google to generate this visit. The announcement says the referral change is being rolled out and we're currently only seeing it for 1/10 to 1/40 of traffic. I expect the data volume to increase and for this to provide much better data on ranking, ranking changes, and the ROI on ranking changes. Here's what you'll get when a referral comes through with the new cd parameter:


The script is available at /abtest/includes/seopositionplus.js and is released as open source under the Mozilla Public License. Use it for free for whatever you like, but if you make it better, you have to share!