Over the weekend I started to see a spike in traffic one of my sites was receiving from Google Image Search in Google analytics. Unfortunately when I start to dig deeper into it I find that Google Analytics won’t show me what the queries were that drove all the traffic to the site.

I love Google analytics: its free, simple to install and can be up and running in minutes and tracking almost instantly. However these kind of little glitches that I find that drive me up the wall. surely the piece of code that extracts the query is almost the same as that used for the noraml search queries.

While trying to develop a solution I thought the bestplace to have a look would be through the blogosphere and start hacking through some blogs to ‘borrow’ a solution that someone else has came up with for this. Some of the solutions for tracking image search traffic through Google analytics look complicated - probably as my JavaScript skills are minimal.

The best solution looks to be that advocated by Joost DeValk. I’m away to test this out and see how it works. If anyone knows of a better way to do this can you let me know. Thanks is advance.