GA: How can non related kws show up in the organic report?
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Hi mozzers,
I have a site A: www.example.com (with its own branded kws)
SiteB: subdomain.example.com
Site A and B are related and belong to the same company. Site B was released a couple months ago.
ISSUE: I have noticed branded kws from Site A showing up on Site B's GA which doesn't make any sense. I try to make searches in the SE with those kws and not a single search showed the Site B(subdomain).
What is weird is that 2 months ago had a an issue with bounce rate on site B showing a 0% bounce rate, then I discovered that we had 2 GATC on site, removed the extra code and bounce was back to normal. Since then I have seen a rise of branded kws from Site A to Site B.
Can someone help me here figuring out what is wrong?
Thanks
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Thanks for your answer Francisco!
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You're going to have to use advanced segments to drill further down. Try finding the source of the traffic. If you still can't figure it out, take the Google Analytics course. I think it's called Conversion University.
There isn't enough information to give you a solution to your problem (no screen shots?)
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Hi Francisco,
we already created 2 separate profiles for Site A and Site B.
Any other suggestions?
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1st make sure that "if" you're using Bing/Yahoo paid search that you are using the Google URL builder because if you're not using Google's URL builder, you'll see Bingads record as Organic.
Next, it's okay to have one Google tracking code for the entire domain. If you want to treat the subdomain as a separate website, then all you have to do is create another "profile" for the sub-domain. Do NOT have 2 different Google Analytics code on the same website. Either have one for both sites OR one each.
Once you do that, give it a few days (I recommend MINIMUM 2 days) to see if things record the right way.
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