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Google Analytics Is Confused - Paid Keywords Showing As Organic
[ Edited ]April 2012 - last edited April 2012
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So I'm new to this. I have a site and am doing some SEO for it, and some paid search. This week I received 12 clicks from Adwords. I looked at my Google Analytics, and under Traffic Sources > Sources > Search > Organic, I see only my paid search keywords.
I thought Google Analytics was supposed to know their own ads by default?
What do I need to do to get this segmenting correctly?
(I should also add that when I click Search > Paid, there are no keywords or visits showing).
Re: Google Analytics Is Confused - Paid Keywords Showing As Organic
April 2012
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HI thwart1,
You will need to link your AdWords and Analytics accounts and you'll need to make sure auto-tagging is enabled. Your AdWords traffic should then show up under "Advertising".
Best of Luck!
Pete
Re: Google Analytics Is Confused - Paid Keywords Showing As Organic
April 2012
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thwart1,;
Don't forget the auto-tagging , to allow "data transfer" to Analytics. We had this issue just this morning.
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Re: Google Analytics Is Confused - Paid Keywords Showing As Organic
April 2012
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I am trying to attach my adwords account to my google analytics but there is no logical place to make this happen. Any suggestions on where I go. I have watched all of the videos out there and even am trying to figure it out with Lynda.com adn getting nowhere. Suggestions?
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April 2012
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Hello,
Kindly read the how to link Google analytics to adwords account blog post.
Hope this will help
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April 2012
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after flipping that switch, it looks like it's behaving properly. I wonder why that isn't the default? Thanks for your time everyone.