- [Gary] Hi, it's Gary here,
I'm a Senior Organic Tech Specialist at Kuzo,
and I'm just going to walk you through
how to fix your traffic which gets misattributed
as referral traffic in Google Analytics.
So here, we're looking at the referral channel grouping.
You can see that there are a few things
which should ideally be in the different channel groups.
So, like DuckDuckGo,
mail.google.com,
a few others down here which should be
put into their respective groupings.
So to do this you go into your Admin,
and I'm just gonna open here,
and on the right-hand side under Channel Settings,
Channel Groupings,
you'll see your Channel Groupings settings here.
So the first thing you want to do
is go into what you want the source to be redefined as.
So if we take the top example of DuckDuckGo.com,
you will have to go into the Organic Search one.
So you put the pencil aside to edit,
and you've already got the system defined channels on there,
so you just add another AND on here
and basically copy the information
from this referral source view here.
So you want the source in this column
and for this one, we'll go exactly much is, DuckDuckGo.
Just copy that and put it straight into there.
And that's fine.
After you click done, you'll see the organic search
now is inclusive of the DuckDuckGo.com source
which we wanted to go on Organic Search.
Now you can add bigger rules in here
such as using widgets.
A general list of it here.
So I've just got some examples
of a few ways that you'll see.
There's a couple of mail ones.
So rather than typing these out each individually,
you can just use examples that you just mail
and that will capture those three highlighted
just using this a regular expression testing tool here.
If you've got quite a few in here,
you can use more complicated rules to add a few of
the previous example of the old one.
If you want the DuckDuckGo in there,
then you can just type it out fully,
then add a pipe, and then you can add another one.
So add this for the sake of argument,
so duckduckgo.com and the ahrefs.com.
It's typed them out with a delimiter there,
I'll paste that into here.
So, change that back to Source,
And then you'll see it matches,
and when you paste it in,
hang on,
and then paste that in there.
But for this example, this is Email.
So just ones.
Ones that contain mail from this list.
Other times you might have to be a bit more restrictive.
So if you've got a source which has mail in it
but it's not actually like mail.google.com,
or something like that,
you might want look at each on individually.
So using that,
add the limiter on the pipe there,
just put it in those two,
paste it into here,
and you'll see that rewrite.
Those two are the Email channel.
There are a few things to note on this
so I think you want to keep a raw view
in your Google Analytics.
It's just so if anything doesn't quite work as intended,
as it might accidentally capture the wrong source
or something like that.
And also this doesn't change historic data.
So you want to be able to do it as,
sort of quickly as you can,
once you're keeping an eye on your referral sources
because these can quickly build up,
sort of start skewing your data quite heavily
if you're getting a lot of traffic
from alternative search engines or mail,
or any other referral source really,
which you want to reassign.