Google Custom Site Search Not Tracking in Universa

Question

We upgraded to Universal Analytics about a year ago and since upgrading our Site Search isn't displaying the keywords within our Analytics account, or even tracking the number of times it is used.

This is a problem as a marketer as I like to know what people are looking for so that I can provide them relevant content.

All I can find on the Google blog is this: https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/2715510 'At this time, Google Custom Search Engine, is not compatible with Universal Analytics.'

Has anyone got any suggestions as to how I can get this data back? Are there any other custom site searches that I could use instead? Are Google even looking at this?

Answer 1

View - View settings - Site search settings is on and correctly tuned?

Answer 2

Google CSE is using old _gaq calls for analytics, it can be mimicked by adding following code line at the end of universal GA snippet:

_gaq={push:function(){ga('send','pageview',arguments[0][1]);}}