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    • BeckyKey
      BeckyKey last edited by

      Hi

      I have a lot of revenue for yesterdays organic traffic attributed to ?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=slGO&kw=8695

      When looking in Google at what this means I have found this:

      To ensure you can accurately differentiate traffic from paid placements from organic traffic, use the WT.srch=1 parameter in the URL from the referring search engine for all paid searches. This parameter always has a value of 1. Organic searches do not include this parameter in the URL. Note that Search Engine Campaign results are displayed in the Marketing > Search Engine >section of the Webtrends Analytics 9 Complete template, not in the Campaigns section.

      We no longer use webtrends, what I need to know is, did this traffic/revenue come from organic or paid?

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      • BritneyMuller
        BritneyMuller last edited by

        Are you using webtrends.com?

        ?WT.srch=1 means that it was coming from paid search.

        Here are some resources on those parameters (which you should customize to your campaign for more accurate tracking data):

        https://producthelp.webtrends.com/streams/webtrends-basic-parameters/

        https://help.webtrends.com/en/analytics9admin/visitor_tracking_parameters-sdc.html

        Hope that helps!

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        • BeckyKey
          BeckyKey @BritneyMuller last edited by

          Great thanks, we use to but we don't anymore.

          Why would this show under my organic segment if it's paid?

          I'll look over the resources thank you 🙂

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