when a user searches from google and lands on our site from the results he/she was shown in the results page, is there a way for my site to detect that he came from google?
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when a user searches from google and lands on our site from the results he/she was shown in the results page, is there a way for my site to detect that he came from google?
Check the
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']variable which should contain the referring URL. Please note that this is not tamper-proof or fail-safe as theHttp-Refererheader can easily been changed or modified by a client.EDIT: Just googled for
phpinfo(because chanes were high that I get aphpinfo()page that shows the$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']variable) to show you how theHttp-Refererwill look like:As you see, you can also extract the search term used in the google query (or detect if the search was initiated by the Google Chrome address bar)…