I wonder if there's anything wrong with my Google Analytics settings, since in the "Traffic Sources" next to the SE's that are separated and that include a report on Google keyword searches I also get for example:
Top referring sites:
1. google.com 70 2.56 00:01:15 97.14% 47.14%
2. google.co.uk 24 2.42 00:00:27 100.00% 37.50%
3. google.com.sa 20 3.50 00:04:07 80.00% 35.00%
4. google.ca 9 4.67 00:00:32 100.00% 22.22%
5. google.co.in 8 3.00 00:02:49 100.00% 37.50%
6. google.it 8 2.00 00:02:27 87.50% 50.00%
7. google.co.id 7 3.71 00:02:34 85.71% 0.00%
8. google.es 7 3.57 00:00:45 100.00% 42.86%
9. images.google.com 7 2.43 00:01:22 85.71% 28.57%
10. google.ae 3 2.00 00:00:18 100.00% 33.33%
Where I'm unable to identify the search string.
For sure able to identify the most popular entry pages, so I see where do poeple land the most, yet I wonder why are all those google sites treated as reffering sites?
Is this in order?
Google Analytics reporting Google as SE and a reffering site
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Re: Google Analytics reporting Google as SE and a reffering site
I sometimes see Google as the referrer in stats but with no query string so there's no search string to parse. At first I thought these were bots faking the referstring but maybe there's some privacy setting in the browser that strips the query string off the referstring?
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Re: Google Analytics reporting Google as SE and a reffering
Even after I've added the sites to google webmaster tools I still don't see no queries for certain searches.
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Re: Google Analytics reporting Google as SE and a reffering
What's a little bit weird is that all the Google url's are claimed to be regarded as Search Engine by default, I might try to manually add those url's to the search engine list and see if it works.
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