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Posted 2021-05-05

Track Searches with 0 Results in Universal Analytics
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The code would look something like this (you will have to modify this so it will work on your site):

	var searchQuery = $('input[class="rsearch_sok2"]').val();
	var p = document.location.pathname;
	var s = "/?q=" +  searchQuery + "&cat=no-results";
	ga('send', 'pageview', {'page':p + s});
	
The code will:

1. Take the query parameter from a input field
2. Get the location path name (e.g /search/ from the url http://www.example.com/search/)
3. Put the data from 1 & 2 into a string matching the search settings in Google Analytics.
4. Send it into Universal Google Analytics