Analytics - 'other'

[Dan-Lawrence]

When i look in GA under Channels (under Acquisition) 'other' is listed

What is 'other' ?

I have been told its other unidentified channels as they did not allow 3rd party cookies or surfers were in anonymous/private mode.   Other is usually organic traffic that couldn't be identified for the aformentioned reasons. This data is encrypted and available but it violates Google guidelines as they are not allowed to pass personal info//data to third parties so it is automatically filtered. But they are not 'Not Provided' (since that still shows under organic) but is usually/mainly some form of organic visits.

Hence Seo can take credit for much of that traffic, is this correct ?

Many Thanks

[Dan-Lawrence]

its averaging 4x the traffic reported in organic search acquisition !? which seems a bit weird, any ideas whats likely causing this google traffic reported in 'other' ?

[SEO5Team]

yes you can, although i doubt the number will be significantly high.

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks

yes i can see that but want to know what kind of traffic it is, say if its saying 'google' is that search engine traffic and can seo work take the credit for it ?

cheers

dan

[SEO5Team]

Hi Dan,

If you click on the "other" icon. (it is a clickable link), it breaks down the source of the tarffic that has been classified in that category.

I was just taking a look at one of the reports for our clients and it shows that the traffic classified as "other" came form Google, Bing and one of our internal domains. You can also look at the geographic source for the traffic to give you more ideas on where the traffic might have originated from.

Cheers,