Linked my adwords account to GA and vice versa and still paid search is getting recorded into organic traffic??
-
Hi Mozzers,
I have linked properly my adwords account to GA and vice versa and somehow I can see 3/4 of this paid traffic recorded to organic search. The most confusing part is that I can see 1/4 of the paid traffic under the "paid" metric.
At this point I don't know really what should I do?
Thank you guys in advance!
-
Hey Taysir,
Nope, that's not normal. The adwords linking is at the property level and the view will pull that information in as it appears.
Can you double check the filters on your LA & SF views (used to be called profiles)? Just to make sure that you aren't excluding any sort of paid traffic?
Unfortunately, this is becoming more complicated the more detailed we get and is going to become impossible for me to troubleshoot without being in the account.
-
Thanks for clarification but here is where I am confused.
Again this is under the same UA 123456XXX-X property
For instance the seattle profile shows adwords data on GA such as the keywords but somehow the LA and SF GA profiles shows only (not set).
Is this normal?
Thanks Jasmine!
-
No, once you link your adwords account it should be done forever.
So if you're linking one AdWords account to one GA profile then you are correct. It would look like this::
AdWords XXX-XXX-0123
- SEA
- LA
- SF
SEA, LA, & SF GA Profile UAXXXX333-3 linked to AdWords XXX-XXX-0123
Of course, the data will never be exactly the same. You can always double check click information inside the AdWords segment of GA.
Tangent:
Here's an example, of when you would need to link your AdWords account more than once::
AdWords XXX-XXX-0123- SEA
- LA
- SF
SEA GA Profile UAXXXX444-4 linked to AdWords XXX-XXX-0123
LA GA Profile UAXXXX555-5 linked to AdWords XXX-XXX-0123
SF GA Profile UAXXXX666-6 linked to AdWords XXX-XXX-0123When your profiles have different profiles with different UA numbers, you will need to link AdWords & GA more than once.
-
Yes it is
Whenever you have multiple GA profiles that tracks separate ads(SF, Seattle, LA). Do you still need to link your adwords and GA multiple times or when it is done once, it is good to go?
EX:
1 Adwords account for multiple groups of ads for
San francisco
LA
SEattle...
and 1 GA account with profile for
San Francisco
LA
Seattle
thanks!
-
-
Thank you Paul
But it has been auto tagged properly since few months ago. That is why I am really confused since it is still showing under organic.
-
Have you made certain that you've enabled auto-tagging in your Adwords account as well, Taysir? That's necessary in addition to linking the accounts in order for GA to properly detect all the paid traffic.
Also, remember that GA will only be able to split out the traffic from now on - it can't go back and split out the traffic for time periods from before you made the updates to Adwords.
Paul
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Moving our Google Analytics Account to a New Account
My company is building a new website with a new web development company. Our old website development company hosted our Google Analytics account on their account (this was done 13+ years ago, probably a good idea then, but we definitely would've done it differently knowing what we know now). I've been researching how we could move our GA property to a new account owned by us, but according to this article: "There are some circumstances in which you cannot move a property:
Reporting & Analytics | | GreatLegalMarketing
-> The source account and the destination account are not in the same Google Marketing Platform organization. Contact an organization admin to make sure both accounts belong to the same organization." In our case, the source account and the destination account do not belong to the same organization. I may just have to accept that we are losing 13+ years of historical data about our website, and if that's the case, oh well. But, if anyone has an idea how we can export/import our GA data to our new analytics account, I would greatly appreciate it.0 -
In Google Search Console: Total Clicks differ from the sum clicks on search queries
Hi.This may be a google technical question, but I've searched a lot and I couldn't find any certain information about that.The problem appears when you look at two stats in Search Console ( WebMasters Tools, some months ago), particulary in the Search Analysis.1- Total clicks2- Sum of clicks at every search query.I attached an image to make me clear.8IZsxs6.png
Reporting & Analytics | | NachoRetta2 -
Why My Site Got 1000% increase in organic traffic from day to night?
Did Google run any update Monday or recently? My site www.shirts4geek.com, strangely had a 1000% organic traffic increase from day to night. I didn't do anything in this site for long a time... but Monday I had a lot traffic coming from organic and every other day this week the site is doing extremely well on traffic and sales. I'm ranking first page for many keywords relate to my products. I wish I could figure out what happens so I can replicate it. The site has very links and the On Page Optimization is kind of basic. Does any have any idea how it could be possible? Have any one seen something similar lately?
Reporting & Analytics | | Felip30 -
Mysterious Referral Link
This keeps coming up in some of our top Referrals on our website in Analytics. Does anyone know what it is? We have tried researching it and have had not luck. http://vizedhtmlcontent.next.ecollege.com/
Reporting & Analytics | | TracSoft0 -
Is it possible to link two Analytics accounts to one AdWords account
Hi Is it possible to link two Analytics accounts that I have admin access to to the one AdWords account in my MCC. Thanks
Reporting & Analytics | | BeattieGroup0 -
Search Traffic Drops Before It Improves?
I'm working on a site with tons of great, useful content....the owners of the site implemented a new site layout and design (complete overhaul) and they were lacking basics such as meta descriptions, 301 redirects, and, shockingly, they had the same Title tag for every single page on a site with thousands of unique how-to articles. Unsurprisingly their traffic dropped by about 300%. They generate most of their traffic from people learning how to build stairs, how to install crown molding, and other related matters. Beginning last Thursday I've been performing basic on-site SEO, things like having unique titles for each page and similar tasks. The week from Thursday when I began until yesterday (Wednesday), Google traffic dropped -29.73% - 17,715 vs 25,210 I believe this is a normal part of the "Google Shuffle" -- does anyone have a Matt Cutts link or similar proof that this is a normal part of the process?
Reporting & Analytics | | wattssw0 -
I only have 65 extrernal links after 8 months of link building?
I am currently employing an SEO consultant who has been carrying out link building for the past 8 months. having signed up to SEOmoz i noticed that i only have 65 external links when my competitors have 13,000+. My consultant gave me a list of over 300 links he has putting into place but SEOmoz only shows 65. What I am concerned about is why I have only so few and where the others have gone? And how do i catch up to my competitors and put a proper (better) strategy in place.
Reporting & Analytics | | teddybaker0 -
Email campaigns. Should I link to my blog or to my site?
I have a client for who we write and post a daily blog article. The articles are optimized and linked to particular targeted content on his top level site. Now we are going to start e-marketing to his 3000+ website users to announce inventory changes and specials. My question is (from a SE standpoint) are we better off linking the e-mail content to the blog and introducing people to the blog (but adding an additional step for getting to the new inventory. Or are we better off putting a link in the HTML E-mail letter that we send out to both the blog and separately to the inventory section? Just to clarify, we wonder if the search engines would provide some additional authority for the extra blog traffic and thereby build the overall score of the blog & site. We are looking at the e-mail campaigns as a potential opportunity to impact SE scores not just awareness of new inventory. Thanks everyone!
Reporting & Analytics | | webindustry0