I just checked my site stats and say I had a lot of hits from Google organic, which is usual, but I also had a few from Google labeled as referral. The referral traffic stayed longer and looked at more pages. What's the difference in source?
what I understand for the word "referral" is that hits from sites that have a link to ur site. but I dont understand whats a google referral hit? I myself got few of them
google organic means that some has conected to your website through google search but not through adwords. Let see the results that you see at the left part (and not to the right is adwords). They only will charge the adwords click. The organic clicks are complete freeIs traffic you do not pay for. Traffic generated from people searching on search engines, following links to your site, etc.Basically not advertising - advertising you pay for is non organic traffic
Hey... Basically organic means visitors came from free listing search engine and from other resources...... referral means referred by a link it is a link pointing toward the site.
(a)Google analytics identifes a specific search engine when search referral traffic comes from a fully qualified domain that has the following elements:- (i) any part of that domain name matches the search engine name (ii) the referal string from the search engine used the correct query parameter.The visits coming through these search result pages are considered as Google referral visits. (b) Google organice visits come form search engine result page.Means if user is searching for any type of information on google and goes to site by clicking on SERP(search engine result page).
Google organic indicates visitors referred by an unpaid search engine listing. Referral traffic indicates visitors referred by links which were not tagged with any campaign variables.