{"id":3234,"date":"2012-05-29T05:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T05:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2012-05-29T05:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T05:58:22","slug":"google-referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/google-referrals\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials","title":{"rendered":"Google Referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may be wondering what it means to see 'google.com' as referral traffic in your Google Analytics admin. When most people think of <a title=\"google.com\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> traffic, they think of Google Adsense or organic search results, but google offers other services like Google Sites that can count as\u00a0referral\u00a0traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Google offers a whole slew of services outside if its search engines that are capable of referring traffic online, including, but not limited to <a title=\"google places\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/places\" target=\"_blank\">Google Places<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"google sites\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/sites\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Sites<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"google plus\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/plus\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"google docs\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/docs\" target=\"_blank\">Google Docs<\/a> (published pages) etc. Google's services are growing everyday, and I'm sure the list will expand.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the time you will see referrals from\u00a0google.co.uk,\u00a0google.ca,\u00a0google.com.eg etc.\u00a0This is the same scenario only; the Google services are in foreign countries.<\/p>\n<p>Here's the official\u00a0explanation\u00a0on the topic:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/googleanalytics\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=55587\">http:\/\/support.google.com\/googleanalytics\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=55587<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be wondering what it means to see &#8216;google.com&#8217; as referral traffic in your Google Analytics admin. When most people think of Google traffic, they think of Google Adsense or organic search results, but google offers other services like Google Sites that can count as\u00a0referral\u00a0traffic. Google offers a whole slew of services outside if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,143,4],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affordablewebsitestips","category-internet-tips","category-tutorials","tag-google-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}