Determine paid vs. organic traffic?

[tcocca]

Is it possible somehow to determine if referral traffic is paid (adwords, adsense, bing ads, etc...) vs. organic (similar to google analytics).

[codejoust]

You can add in more checks for the search engine, or add a module searching for paid referrals.

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Iain

On Jan 8, 2012, at 8:29, Tom Cocca [email protected] wrote:

Is it possible somehow to determine if referral traffic is paid (adwords, adsense, bing ads, etc...) vs. organic (similar to google analytics).

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[codejoust]

What ad networks do you want to add?

[tcocca]

I am thinking the big ones to start maybe? Adwords, Double Click, Adsense, Bing Adsense. I'm not quite sure what the actual tracking would involve. I think it would just be regex matching on the referrer.

[codejoust]

I might do this in a new query interface when I modularize the project. So, probably a far-future deal. You also can do session.cur_session.referrer.match(/doubleclick/i), etc. for now.

[necenzurat]

for google you can use if referer is google.com/aclk or if google leaves his ?gclid in the page url