Bing Referral Traffic
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We do not get referral traffic from Google, only organic. Why do we get both organic and referral traffic from Bing?
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That is what I was assuming, but I began to wonder if there was more to it than that.
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ATP is correct, it's because of Bing's transition to https. Google will hopefully correct their reporting soon.
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Hi Mike,
Somebody might jump in and correct me here but I think bing referral / organic are one and the same. The difference being that one is when it is search logged in via https so the terms are hidden and the other when search normally and it can provide a query. Refferal is increasing as they become more google like an increase the https.
This doesn't show up for google because analytics is a google product so they classify it all as organic not referral.
Edit: I cant spell
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