On the 1st Feb, Google announced its latest release of the Google Mini now integrates directly with Google Analytics.

The Google Mini - and its big brother the Google Search Appliance (GSA), are the “Google in a box” tools that Google sells to businesses wishing to use Google technology to search their own web site or corporate intranet. Previously the Mini had a very basic stats reporting tool but you could customise the XSLT stylesheet and insert your own GA page tracking tag. However that was a manual coding exercise that put many off for fear of breaking the results page.

Now the process is much simpler without the need to manually edit XSLT code.

To set up Analytics reporting in Google Mini/Search Appliance:

When you enable Analytics reporting in your Google Search Appliance, the search appliance automatically adds the Analytics code block to the Front End.

1. If you do not have an account with Google Analytics, go to:

   https://www.google.com/analytics/ to create a new account. Google Analytics provides you a code block to attach to your web page.

2. Copy just the account number of the code block. For example, in the following code block, the account number is: UA-123456-1.
3. Log in to the Admin Console and navigate to the Serving > Front Ends > Output Format page.
4. Under Page Layout Helper, click the arrow next to Global Attributes .
5. In the Google Analytics Account Number text box, paste the Analytics account number that you copied.
6. Click the Save Page Layout Code button.

Thats it. All your generated search results pages will now be tracked within Google Analytics.