Comments on: &rlz= in Google referrer: Organic traffic or AdWords?

By: Stonecold

Stonecold — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:52:42 +0000

So does Google record WHAT we’re searching or just that we’re searching something and/or internal errors that occur?

By: ravi

ravi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:41:07 +0000

basically i think the rlz just comes as a part of info collection on chrome.
the answer is here http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0169b5d789130615&hl=en

By: Boon

Boon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:15:19 +0000

Interesting.. I have been wondering about the rlz code, but I don’t think it is only there for Chrome, as I have lots of visitors to my site using IE or Firefox with rlz strings.

I will dig further and see if I can find anything else…

By: SEO

SEO — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:46:29 +0000

Chrome is not a good browser..infact nothing works there! I tried with IE and Firefox.

By: alec

alec — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:30:33 +0000

Hello Vincent,

I block tracking all the time in my browser. There are lots of downloadable plugins to block tracking. I don’t want our code on the radar.

If you would like us to do some custom coding for you based on the Yoast plugin, let me know.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:26:59 +0000

Hi Alec,
There is alreeady an open source WP contact form plugin that tracks all of this, which I’ve used and works as intended.
http://yoast.com

Not sure why it would be on any block list??
Maybe your code uses some ‘black hat’ techniques?

The issue is that I would like to do the same on another PHP form on our non WP Website, and I don’t know PHP code well enough to extract the code from the WP plugin.

By: alec

alec — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:23:17 +0000

Hello Vincent,

Much as we’d love to share this code (and we talk about it), the code is valuable inasmuch as it’s private. As soon as any code like this goes public, it goes on all kinds of block lists.

If you really need it for your business, we could license the plugin to you and set it up to work for you – but strictly on a non-redistribution basis. If you are interested, email me directly.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:37:37 +0000

So how do you track the referrer and if it’s a PPC campaign on a Web form that collects leads?

Can you share the code to add into a PHP form.

Many thanks

By: alec

alec — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:06:38 +0000

Hello Christopher,

No I don’t have Google Toolbar installed (not on any of my computers).

I do use SearchStatus on Firefox so we are checking page rank against the Google servers if you think that might be it.

By: Christopher Woods

Christopher Woods — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:40:51 +0000

Do you have the Google Toolbar installed?