Hi - I used to have this configured I thought but I don't now it seems. In the sites configuration, it currently does not pass parameters to the url when using the search bar - it seems like a post method and the url is clean when returning searches - I am curious if it can be something like: website.com/search.asp?stext=your+search+term
This is to track search terms via site search in GA4 as well as improve customer experience. Thanks.


Joe

Hi Joe
I just did a test on your site search page and I did get the results in the URL. But I guess you mean the search box in the header and you'll find that the <form> there has the method="post" parameter. So just change that to method="get" and it should work as you want.

Vince

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Hello - Thank you for your reply

It seems the mini form builds the url differently than the search page via incsearch.asp- for instance when i use the mini form with a get method it posts the url like so:

https://www.WEBSITE.com/search.asp?posted=1&nobox=true&stext=SEARCHTERM(and returns no values)
but the search page builds it like so:
https://www.WEBASITE.com/search.asp?pg=1&stext=SEARCHTERM&sprice=&stype=&scat=&sfil0= (and returns values)

To overcome - was able to modify for input types and it sends user the search page and displays results.
Code I used:
<form method="get" action="search.asp" id="search_mini_form">
<input type="hidden" name="pg" value="1">
<input type="text" maxlength="128" class="search_look" value="" name="stext" id="search" autocomplete="off">
<button id="searc-button" class="search_btn" title="Search" type="submit">Search</button>
</form>


It helped give me more insight into how the search function works - thanks.

Joe