| why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | davidfree | 9/27/09 1:35 PM | hi there, this issue has been raised before (and also HOW to track the keywords), but I cannot understand just WHY the image-search is treated differently from the "normal" search. I can understand, that from Google News there can be referrer traffi |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | davidfree | 9/27/09 2:04 PM | BTW, the definition in the help section article (see below) is not satisfactory to me... What does google[referral] mean? Not all referrals from Google.com domains come through organic search or AdWords ad listings. Referrals may come from a variety |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | JohnPhilipGreen | 10/22/09 4:30 PM | I agree... I would be curious to hear a better rationale as well. Our site gets a LOT of google image search traffic but I have no visibility into what people are searching for through GA. Best I can do is a Custom Segment and see what the top landi |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | Sam563 | 4/13/10 9:10 AM | I'd also be interested in an answer. Did anyone try adding images.google.xxx as a search engine? |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | JezC | 4/26/10 5:46 AM | See Brain Clifton's very helpful book (about be revised to the second edition) and his web site, which includes scripts to identify http://maps.google.com, local search engines, etc. |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | Blast Advanced Media | 8/3/11 12:52 PM | Brian Clifton's resources are great for this too. It just depends on what your end goal is. To address your specific question and get the insights you are after you need to alter your ga-track.js file. Add the script below in between the setAccount a |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | Blast Advanced Media | 8/3/11 2:40 PM | Okay, so we were notified via Rachaell regarding another change in how image search is being handled by Google Analytics. Upon investigation it appears that the code provided above no longer works due to changes in the URL parameters that Google Imag |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | davidfree | 8/3/11 11:23 PM | Well, the good news is that (in at least in 1 of my GA account), the image traffic now appears as part of the Search Engine Traffic.... And keywords are shown (as I suggested above). You still need a filter to extract the exact referrer and an advanc |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | DevinXX | 8/25/11 10:32 PM | I use the follow code, but don't work. |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | Blast Advanced Media | 8/26/11 6:48 AM | Hi DevinXX, Please point us to your website so that we can investigate your implementation. Thanks,http://Joewww.blastam.com |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | Blast Advanced Media | 8/26/11 1:39 PM | Hi DevinXX, Try setting your custom variable (_setCustomVar) after this block of code. That should fix it. Thanks,http://Joewww.blastam.com |
| Re: why is traffic medium for images.google.xxx reported as referrer, rather than organic? | DevinXX | 8/26/11 7:09 PM | Hi Joe, You are great. Finally I see the souce "images.google", when I placed the _setCustomVar after this code block. Now it work well. Thank you very much. |