Import Search Keywords

Some years ago most search engines decided to hide keywords from the referrer urls, which made it impossible for web analytics tools to report reliable keyword statistics. Using this feature you can now get back powerful insights into how your audience searches on Google, Bing and Yahoo!

Which queries caused your website to appear in search results? Which queries result in more traffic to your website than others? Add these new reports to your Matomo to get the exact list of all keywords searched by users on these search engines. You can finally go beyond the “keyword not defined” issue and get deep SEO insights in Matomo!

 

Getting started

Is is possible to import keyword data from other search engines than Google, Yandex, Bing and Yahoo?What do I need to import my Google Search Keywords?Do I need to set up a Google account for Search Console?

Set up the import

Import Google Search keywords in Matomo Import Bing and Yahoo! search keywords into Matomo Import Yandex search keywords into Matomo

Analyse Search Keywords

Where are my search keywords displayed? Analyse search keywords reportsHow often are the crawling overview metrics updated?

Troubleshoot

How often will the search engine keywords data be imported?Why is my Google keyword data not available for the most recent days?Why are my Google keywords not showing up in the Search Keywords report?Why do I still see “keyword not defined” in some of my reports?How do I import Google keywords from multiple protocols/sub-domains into one Matomo website? (using domain property)When I Start the oAuth process for Search Keywords import, why do I get redirected to my homepage?Why isn’t the Google keyword data available for dates older than 3 months?Google Search Console does not show any Google search keywords, or very few, what should I do?Fix error “Forbidden you do not have permission to access this resource”

On-Premise FAQs

Get the Search Engine Keywords Performance featureTrigger the keywords import manually