Title: Search Words question
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Search Words question

 *  Resolved [Explorz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/explorz/)
 * (@explorz)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-words-question/)
 * Hi,
 * I need help understanding the results in the “Search Words” section.
 * I thought that what I would find there are the words that people are using that
   lead them to my site. However, all I see in the results of this report are the
   titles of the pages themselves.
 * For example this one shows up a ton:
    LiveLifeFullywithChessEdwards|Yourguidetopowerfulandjoyfulliving.
 * That simply references the page title and subtitle but in no way reflects the
   words that someone used to find my site. Clearly nobody typed that in to the 
   search input.
 * What am I missing? Is there a simple way to see what search words are being input
   into the different search engines that reference my site? Thanks.
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 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-words-question/#post-5289772)
 * Search words rely on the referring site to set the referred HTTP header accurately,
   it is an imprecise process at best.
 * It’s probably happening for one of two reasons:
 * – Which ever search engine is referring the link isn’t suppling the search words
   and instead replacing them with the above text.
 * – A spam robot is providing a fake referring header with the above text.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-words-question/#post-5290022)
 * Closing due to inactivity.

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