Disparity between analytics click and WMT clicks.
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There's no correlation between click in the 'search queries' report in WMT and analytics. Analytics organic google traffic is over double what is shown in webmaster tools. When I look at the graphs over the last 30 days in each they look similar its just that analytics is showing more traffic than WMT. I've checked I only have the analytics code once on the page. What could be causing this?
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It's no secret that sometimes Google's data can be off. What were the crawl dates? Could be that you are getting different results due to the bots crawling your domain at different times. For example, if your sitemap is set to crawl daily in WMT vs. weekly in GA.
Also, I would update the UA code to the one that is in you admin account. Not sure how they would be different. The one on your site should match the one in your account. For WMT, we always use the download document function to verify, rather than a meta tag. Seems to be more reliable (especially when building in a CMS as the code placement can be confusing), but I'm not sure if it makes a difference.
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As an update I've just compared the analytics code in my page to that in my analytics admin and they're different. Could it be I'm using an old analytics code somehow? The UA numbers are the same etc... but the codes are definitely different. Should I update the code on my pages or leave it?
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