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Question: Direct and Referral Traffic Doesn't Add Up For Campaigns
[info] I've been running Google analytics for several months and was particularly monitoring referral traffic after running several non-google ad campaigns via Facebook and LinkedIn. The results appeared pretty disappointing until I discovered this week that I am now 99% certain that over 70% of the traffic attributed by analytics to Direct traffic was in fact from these adds- all had an almost 90-100% new user rate and to the slightly obscure but specific pages my ads were running to...(it's a publisher so linked to individual articles). Has anyone else had this issue with Google Analytics and is there a fix that anyone knows about? Mike [/info]
Answer: Campaign Tracking with Google Analytics
This is very common issue and usually stems from failing to properly setup Google Analytics campaign tracking for your ads. Here's a list of resources I've curated where you can read more about Campaign Tracking:
If you've tagged 100% of your ads and are still getting lots of direct traffic instead of campaigns, then you likely have a problem with tracking URL's getting stripped out by a redirect. That's an issue for another post... Best, -Caleb
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