SEO Meets Google Analytics

General About

This plugin takes care of detecting search bot visits, and register them on Google Analytics using the measurement protocol. Got to the About tab to get more info."; do_settings_sections("wp-seo-ga-options"); echo "* Please use a value with the following format:
/(UA|YT|MO)-\d+-\d+/"; submit_button(); }else{ do_settings_sections("wp-seo-ga-about"); ?>

WP SEO GA version 0.1

This plugin uses uap-core to detect whenever a search bot visits your page, and then send the info about the bot and visited page to the configured Google Analytics Property ID.

Read more about the Measurement Protocol here .

Take in mind this a Beta product and it has not been deeply tested. Try it first on a testing enviroment before installing it on a production site.

You may find the sourcecode on the following github repo: https://github.com/thyngster/wp-seo-ga
You may read some more info and leave a comment on the following blog post: https://www.thyngster.com/seo-meets-ga-tracking-search-engines-visits-within-measurement-protocol

David Vallejo @thyng

get_bot_details(); if($bot_details["model"]!="Spider"){ return; } if(preg_match('/(UA|YT|MO)-\d+-\d{1,3}$/', get_option("google_analytics_property_id"))==false){ return; } $core_payload_template = array ( 'v' => '1', 't' => 'pageview', 'dl' => ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on" ? "https" : "http").'://'.$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 'ul' => substr($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"],0,2), 'de' => 'UTF-8', 'dt' => wp_get_document_title(), 'cid' => $bot_details["ga_client_id"], 'uid' => $bot_details["ga_user_id"], 'tid' => get_option("google_analytics_property_id"), 'ds' => 'wp-seo-ga', 'a' => rand(100000,9999999), 'z' => rand(100000,9999999), 'cd1' => $bot_details["name"], 'cd2' => $bot_details["model"], 'cd3' => $bot_details["type"], 'cd4' => $bot_details["user_agent"], 'cd5' => '200', 'cd6' => $bot_details["ga_client_id"], 'cd7' => ip2long($bot_details["ip_address"]), 'cd8' => round(memory_get_peak_usage() / 1024 / 1024, 0), 'cd9' => timer_stop(), 'cd10' => get_num_queries(), 'cd11' => $bot_details["name"], 'cd12' => $bot_details["model"], 'cd13' => $bot_details["type"], 'cd14' => ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on" ? "https" : "http"), 'cd15' => $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"], 'cd16' => $bot_details["ip_reverse_domain"] ); if(is_404()){ $core_payload_template["cd5"]= '404'; } $this->send_ga_hit($core_payload_template); } public function send_ga_hit($payload){ if(!get_option('wp_seo_ga_endpoint')) $endpoint_url = 'https://www.google-analytics.com/collect'; else $endpoint_url = 'https://www.google-analytics.com/collect'; $hitPayload = $endpoint_url."?".http_build_query($payload, '', '&'); if(ini_get("allow_url_fopen")==true){ // Create a stream $opts = array( 'http'=>array( 'method'=>"GET", 'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n" . "User-agent: SEO Meets Google Analytics Plugin WP 0.2\r\n" ) ); $context = stream_context_create($opts); $file = file_get_contents($hitPayload, false, $context); } else { $file = $this->file_get_contents_curl($hitPayload); } } public function file_get_contents_curl($url, $opts = array()) { if(function_exists('curl_version')){ $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "SEO Meets Google Analytics Plugin WP 0.2"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); if(is_array($opts) && $opts) { foreach($opts as $key => $val) { curl_setopt($ch, $key, $val); } } curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); if(FALSE === ($retval = curl_exec($ch))) { error_log(curl_error($ch)); } else { return $retval; } } } public function get_bot_details(){ $ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; $parser = Parser::create(); $user_agent_parsed = $parser->parse($ua); $bot_info = array( 'name' => $user_agent_parsed->ua->family, 'model' => $user_agent_parsed->device->family, 'type' => $user_agent_parsed->device->model, 'ip_address' => $this->get_ip_address(), 'user_agent' => $ua ); $bot_info["ip_reverse_domain"] = $this->getRootDomain(gethostbyaddr($bot_info["ip_address"])); // Generate UUIDv4 from Ip Address $cid = md5(ip2long($bot_info["ip_address"])); $cid = substr_replace($cid, "-", 8, 0); $cid = substr_replace($cid, "-", 12, 0); $cid = substr_replace($cid, "-", 16, 0); $cid = substr_replace($cid, "-", 20, 0); $bot_info["ga_client_id"] = $cid; // Set bot's User ID $bot_info["ga_user_id"] = ip2long($bot_info["ip_address"]); return $bot_info; } public function getRootDomain($domain){ // Not the best way to do this, trying to avoid the need to deal with Top TLD lists if (preg_match("/\.[a-z]{2,3}\.[a-z]{2,3}$/i", $domain)) { return implode(".",array_slice(explode(".",$domain), -3, 3, true)); }else{ return implode(".",array_slice(explode(".",$domain), -2, 2, true)); } } public function get_ip_address() { if( array_key_exists('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', $_SERVER) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) ) { if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], ',')>0) { $addr = explode(",",$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']); return trim($addr[0]); } else { return $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']; } } else { return $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; } } /** * Activate the plugin */ public static function activate() { // Set the GA endpoint value to default value on activations update_option('wp_seo_ga_endpoint','https://www.google-analytics.com/collect'); } // END public static function activate /** * Deactivate the plugin */ public static function deactivate() { // Do nothing } // END public static function deactivate } // END class WP_Plugin_Template } // END if(!class_exists('WP_Plugin_Template')) if(class_exists('WP_Plugin_Seo_Ga')) { // Installation and uninstallation hooks register_activation_hook(__FILE__, array('WP_Plugin_Seo_Ga', 'activate')); //register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, array('WP_Plugin_Seo_Ga', 'deactivate')); $wp_plugin_seo_ga = new WP_Plugin_Seo_Ga(); }