How to track google business traffic as organic into google analytics?

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi mozzers,

After noticing that all Google business(known in the past as google places) traffic gets recorded into direct traffic I would like to get this into organic traffic instead. What is the best method to do so?

I found this great post http://moz.com/blog/tracking-traffic-from-google-places-in-google-analytics by Rebecca Lehmann but was written in 2011. Are these method the only one available to track this traffic or is there a new method we could try that would track all this traffic into organic search?

Thanks for letting me know!

[RedNovaLabs91]

Hi Taysir.

I can't answer your question - because I'm wondering the same thing!  I am curious though - how did you find out that maps traffic was being tagged as direct traffic?

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi Red Nova,

I was able to detect it using Real Time in GA.

Thanks!

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Taysir,

You might want to check out this thread, also going on regarding a related topic:

http://moz.com/community/q/google-maps-redirect-notice-on-track-able-url-s-how-do-i-track-maps-visits-in-analytics

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Thank you Miriam!