Comments on: Evil Google Broad-Match Solved with Raw Query Hack

By: john mcdonald

john mcdonald — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:49:43 +0000

It’s supposed to be (\?|&)(q|p|query)=([^8])

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:41:03 +0000

“(\?|&)(q|p|query)=([^8″ is not a valid regular expression.

Looks like the expression is wrong. Any correction available?

By: Not my real name

Not my real name — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:02:25 +0000

I’m excited. This is exciting stuff. I hope I can get it to work. I found another post referrring to the ‘bogus broad match’ but it was 5 years old. I was inspired to Google ‘adwords ambiguous match type’ after trying to add multiple new keywords on AdWords Editor, selecting the box that tells it to replace all keywords in the group with the new list. It says it’s going to ignore some keywords, reason: ambiguous match. Some keyword phrases could overlap others in broad match; I’ve seen this for ages but been unsure what to do about it.

Getting serious now.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:26:36 +0000

“(\?|&)(q|p|query)=([^&” is not a valid regular expression.
“(\?|&)(q|p|query)=([^8″ is not a valid regular expression.

Neither seem to work. Anybody else have any success? I didn’t think it looked right.

Thanks

By: Mike Stone

Mike Stone — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:51:07 +0000

Nam,

For the first filter, the filter name is AdWords Query Step 1.

The filter type is custom, then select advanced. Field A –> Extract A should be Referral. Then (\?|&)(q|p|query)=([^8

Hopefully this helps clarify!

if not feel free to shoot me an email. Sales at Wpromote works.

By: nam

nam — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:59:06 +0000

The last part of the A in the view appears to be missing the closing brackets at the end… ])

B should be (cpc|ppc) I think.

I still can’t see it in Analytics. Am I missing something?

Thanks

By: qts

qts — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:44:42 +0000

what do field A and B in the first filter say? it’s a little blurry on my screen but looks like this
A – (\?|&)(q|p|query)=([^&
B- (cpc|opc)