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I've done a little more reading and found that <direct>will never overwrite <organic>(as long as the cookie is active, <6 months) as discussed here: http://www.hmtweb.com/marketing-blog/google-analytics-referring-sources-experiment/</organic></direct>

Correct?

Is that only when they do not have an active session? I believe direct will never overwrite organic origin when the session is active?

Are there any services available to track organic traffic over multiple days/sessions?

Many of our conversions occur in a customers second visit to the site. Often, a customer will arrive at our site, submit a finance application, leave, and return at a later date to checkout.

We are interested in tracking how many of our checkouts come from customers who originally found our site through an organic search result.

If a customer enters the site through organic search, leaves, and returns later through an email link or directly entering our URL, will G analytics show that customer as direct or organic origin?

Cheers,

Ben

Despite those changes to the details of both sites, it sounds as though the most important parts of the website are still identical. Although you have used synonyms on small throw-away lines, the bulk of the actual content and wordcount are still the same. To avoid penalty I suggest you consider paraphrasing the product text and description, and continuing your use of synonyms in the titles too.

In answer to your original question about what you can do to increase organic traffic, the answer is always original content. Create infographics, helpful articles, and/or amusing product-related pictures, and distribute them using social media.

Google knows it's there, there is no need to re-submit for indexing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acomparetravel.ie+*

I suggest you start with the basics. Work on keyword optimizing the content of your website, and then building links where you can.

All the best.

I'm in-house, and SEO wasn't originally part of my job description.

Basically, anything online is now my domain. I'm sure I'm not the only one who prefers to control all aspects of online presence?

I wonder if it has anything to do with the "Free Instant Access" popup that restricts any further access to listings until an email address is provided?

I was unable to escape the popup whenever it came up, and always had to close the tab. Could this affect crawlability? It certainly affects user experience.