Wes' Puzzling Blog

If you had access to the actual web logs, there are plenty of log analyzers ranging from free to thousands of dollars. If not, there are also plenty of embedded trackers which simply require you to add an image file to each page (just place in a common section). The file actually exists on a third party site which analyzes its log file requests for that image and provides back the report. They also start for free and go up from there depending on number of hits and features.

Personally, I use WebLog Expert which is nicely priced but gives me some advanced functions like downloading my log files via FTP automatically.

Unfortunately I don't have access the log files directly only the referral log given in the admin interface to this blog.

Then I suggest going with the second option of putting a tracker image on each page. You can google for free web tracker which should give you tons of options to go through and find one with the features you want.

Why not host your blog on your own site? You can have a personalized domain name like, WesHaggard.com, if that gets you excited.

What's important, though, is that you would have direct access to the log files, so you could parse those using any # of programs, as Don mentioned. I run a number of .Text blogs through WebHost4Life and have been pleased with the cost/perf/uptime. (A more in-depth review at: http://scottonwriting.net/sowBlog/posts/1187.aspx)

refer.vbs:
Set re = New RegExp
re.Pattern = "a href=""http:\/\/[^>]*google[^>]*q=([^&""<]*)[&""<]"
re.Global = True
Set HTTP = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
URL = "http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/admin/Referrers.aspx?pg="
For page = 1 to NUMBEROFPAGES
HTTP.Open "GET", URL & page, False
HTTP.Send
Set matches = Re.Execute(HTTP.ResponseText)
If Not Matches Is Nothing Then
For Each Match in Matches
For Each SubMatch In Match.SubMatches
WScript.Echo SubMatch
Next
Next
End If
Next

Change NUMBEROFPAGES to the amount of referal pages in your logs :)

redirect the output to a txt file and you got all your google queries :)

Don, Scott, thanks for the info.
I know I could track all my stuff through the web server log files but I didn't really want to go that route.

David, thanks for the script, that is more along the lines of what I was looking for, but I was hoping that since .Text already has the referrals then I could just get them via a webservice or something.