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can any one Explain Difference between Google Organic & Google Referral

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Good short answers from and about organic (unpaid) vs sponsored (paid). The important technical distinction for analytics is that traffic is stored as a Source/Medium pair — the source is the site or domain (for example "google") and the medium is the category (for example "organic" or "referral"). See Google’s explanation of traffic-source dimensions. ().

That explains why you can see both "google / organic" and "google / referral" in reports. Clicks from Google Search are typically recorded as source=google, medium=organic. Clicks that come from other Google-owned hosts or services (Maps, News, Web Light, programmable search, Google Drive/Docs, certain Chrome suggestions, etc.) can show up with medium=referral because those referrers are not treated as a search-engine result in the default list. Google documents the default search engines it recognizes; third-party notes give concrete examples of Google subdomains that often appear as referrals. () (Examples and fixes for misclassified referrals).

How to check and fix: inspect Source/Medium (Universal Analytics: Acquisition > All Traffic > Source/Medium; GA4: Reports > Acquisition > Traffic acquisition and use Session source/medium). If traffic from a Google host is misclassified you can (a) add missing engines to UA’s Organic Search Sources or adjust default channel rules, (b) use GA4’s unwanted-referrals settings to ignore specific referrers when appropriate, or (c) add UTM parameters to links you control so campaign/source/medium are explicit. Test any filters first — filters and exclusions change future data only. () ().

Quick cautions that tie back to earlier posts: don’t assume every "google" hit is the same — check Source/Medium; avoid blanket referral exclusions (they can mask real sources); and make fixes in a test view or use UTMs where possible. For detailed how‑tos see the Google help articles above.

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Member Avatar for andrew Collings

If someone search on google it shows result,
Search result can be divided into two way Organic result and sponsored result.

Organic result is that google can find those which matched best google show it as a organic result.

Sponsored result is a paid service for this service you have to pay .

Organic result is free.

you have to do SEO for get position in organic result.
Actually it depend on which keyword you are using , & your competitor.

thanks..

Member Avatar for shaniadavid

I will add here that the sponsored results are also called inorganic results.. These results are shown at right or at the top .. These are ads of the companies who rum PPC for their websites .. Thanks

Member Avatar for AirForceOne

Hi,

Google Organic would refer to traffics from organic searches on Google while Google Referral would mean traffics come from other products from Google like Google Places, Google Bases and others except Google Organic. :)

all the best,

Member Avatar for keyideas

Search results comes from any keyword search is called Google organic search while referral traffic from google network is called Google referral traffic.

Member Avatar for shaniadavid

Well i am using google analytics and shows me the forums, blogs and directories in the referral sites tab.. I don't know how can i view referral traffic from google in analytics!

Member Avatar for echovme

Visitors came through keywords from Google Organic is called organic Search.
Visitors came through Referring websites is called Google ref feral

Member Avatar for RoseMary3

Thanks every One for Replaying

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