How to Find the Referral Traffic Sources to Your Website

Edited by Goxerago, BR, ShrUtiable, Teresa and 1 other

There are three major kinds of traffic that are routed to your website. They are organic or search traffic, Direct traffic, and referral traffic. Organic traffic refers to the direct search traffic that hits your website. Direct traffic is of lesser SEO value since it refers to the traffic that directly keys in the web URL and hits your website (Who should probably be the people who know your website already). Referral traffic is the search traffic that is routed through the various submissions, referrals that exists in the web for your website.

It becomes essential to track this referral traffic and the websites or medium that drive referral traffic to your website. Lets now see how to track this referral traffic sources to your website using Google Analytics tool.

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   Log in to your Google Analytics tool using the Login credentials and you view the various website accounts that are integrated with your analytics account.
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   Click on the exact website for which you wish to track the referral traffic sources. Enter the standard reporting section.
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   In the left panel you would see the Traffic sources option. Under this there is the sources section.
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   On clicking this sources option you will find the referrals option. On clicking the sources option you will see the various referral websites and media that cater traffic to your website.

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EditTips

• By clicking on the show rows option below the table, you can optimize the number of referral website you can view at a time.