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Asked: 2026-05-12T10:31:10+00:00

In awstats I get a table with all the key words and phrases used

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In awstats I get a table with all the key words and phrases used to find my website. I would like to capture this myself however each search engine url is in a different format. When google is the referer I can use the variable q from the querystring as the search term (e.g. google.com?q=my+keywords) however another search engine may have the format searchengine.com?search=my+keywords

Is there a generic way of identifying search keywords? Or am I going to have to create a regex/filter for each search engine?

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    One possibility is to just grab the referring URL ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) and parse out the keywords in it.

    For example, check out this Google URL (searching for “stack overflow”):

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=stack+overflow&aq=0&oq=stack+over&aqi=g10

    The value of the q GET variable holds the keywords delimited by + signs.

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