Visits from Google with ccTLD are showing as referrals
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Hi!I was seeing on of my clients Analytics report and it shows that some of the main sites that send visits and get tagged as referral traffic are google.com.br, google.cl, google.com.ar, among others.
Do you know why is this happening? Shouldn't they get tagged by default as organic?
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Great! I'll just filter those visits directly in Analytics.
Thanks!
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You'll notice that a measurable amount tagging in Analytics can be hit or miss. For example you'll also find a lot of referrals from places that are clearing clicks from someone's online email account (lots contain 'webmail' or 'email' in the referring domain) but you could filter these to be counted as organic / email channels respectively. You just have to write up the rule that does so or adjust them on the back end when working with the data in a spreadsheet.
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