Re: [Summary-Talk] Single word phrases

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is fairly simple to exclude single word entries from the Search
Phrases report, but more substantially more complicated to do so from
the Overview/e-mailed reports.

I am surprised that you would want to do so though. I think you may be
misunderstanding how Summary defines a search phrase. Search phrases are
the string the visitor typed into the search engine in order to locate
your site. They might have typed one word, or several words, but
whatever they typed is the "search phrase" from Summary's point of view.
Search words are individual words extracted from search phrases, they
may have occurred alone or in combination with other words.

Anyway, you can use a Report Filter to remove lone words from the Search
Phrases report. On the Report Filters configuration page set one of the
user filters to:

+* *
*

That will include anything that has a space in it and exclude everything
else (the individual words). Then you need to reconfigure the report
layout, go to the Search Phrases report and click on the wrench icon, to
add "Name on User One List" (or which ever user filter you setup) as a
filter.

Getting that to work on the Overviews/e-mailed reports is far more
complex. There is no way to reconfigure the TopN for Search Phrases so
you will need to replace it with a <sum-using> <sum-table> sequence with
a custom report layout.

Jason


Bill Taggart wrote:
> 
> I'm running smoothly now except that both the browser Overview and
> Email reports include single word entries in the Search Phrases output.
> In some cases the single words are repeats of terms that also appear in
> the Search Words list.
> 
> Is there a way that I can suppress the single word entries from
> appearing in the Search Phrase list?

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