Does anyone know of any software which will allow me to plug in a date range and an IP address, and it will read my logs telling me where that person came from and what their search term was?

Or if anyone can explain how else to monitor which keywords provide buying visitors, and which ones attract "window shoppers", that would be very helpful.

I am attempting to get a cookie working which can do this, but it's proving more difficult than I originally though.

I believe analog can show you the search keywords. However to see which keywords resulted in buying, you will need to have custom solution.

What problem are you facing with cookie? It should be straight foward with a backend database session records.

It is sooooo interesting to see the user clicks and search keywords and who actually did shop at the end :) and what they did after they ordered :stickout

Hi Masood.

It seems pretty much all of them show search terms / engines, but it's specifically search terms against dated IP entries I'm looking for.

I managed to get a javascript cookie going which writes the document referrer, but couldn't manage to make it read it and then enter it into a hidden field in an order form. It should be simple, but it was my first attempt at writing a cookie.

I think with a little time I could probably do it, but it's the backdated logs I'd really like to analyze just so I know which keywords have been working for me for the last 3 years.

If you can use some server side scripting (php, jsp, perl) and maintain a session in database (say mysql), it would be pretty easy to store the search terms and referrer. And track them in session till they reach the order form.

For the past logs, you may like to try some log analysis tool. Like 'web trends' or 'analog'.

OK, I have made a start on my cookie to store the original referring page. My plan is to get the information collected to write itself into a hidden field in a form. This is as far as I have got :

<script language="javascript">
//document.cookie="qazwsx"
var exp = new Date()
var oneYearFromNow = exp.getTime() + (365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
exp.setTime(oneYearFromNow)
var qasdf = document.referrer
document.cookie = "referrer=" + escape(document.referrer) + "; expires=" + exp.toGMTString();
document.write (qasdf);
</script>

So how do I add something so this only writes the first time it visits my domain, and how do I get this info into one of my enquiry forms?

I use two solutions

- PPhLogger (really cool), look at www.phpee.com

- cgi-script like
#!/bin/sh

set -f

echo Content-type: text/plain
echo

echo Nextsite logs
echo

tail -200 /usr/local/apache/domlogs/your site

Regards,
Eugene