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copied!<p>I see a decent amount of traffic, around 100 visits a day, that comes from an images.google domain but shows as referral traffic rather than organic in Google Analytics. I have some custom code to pull keywords out and set an organic source for a few variations of what Google Image Search referrers look like, and it works for every referrer I can run it against from the server log.</p> <pre><code>var ref = document.referrer; if (ref.search(/www.google/) != -1 && ref.search(/imgres/) != -1) { var regex = new RegExp("www.google.([^\/]+).*"); var match = regex.exec(ref); ref = 'http://images.google.' + match[1] + '?' + ref.split('?')[1]; _gaq.push(['_setReferrerOverride', ref]); } else if (ref.search(/maps.google/) != -1 && ref.search(/q=/) == -1) { var regex = new RegExp("maps.google.([^\/]+).*"); var match = regex.exec(ref); ref = 'http://maps.google.' + match[1] + '?q=' + encodeURIComponent('(not provided)'); _gaq.push(['_setReferrerOverride', ref]); } function splitUrl(url) { var vals = {}; var split = url.split('?'); vals.base = split[0]; if(split.length > 1) { var vars = split[1].split('&'); vals.params = {}; for(var i = 0, len = vars.length; i < len; i++) { var valSplit = vars[i].split('=', 2); vals.params[valSplit[0]] = valSplit[1]; } } return vals; } function joinUrl(urlObj) { var vars = []; for(key in urlObj.params) if(urlObj.params.hasOwnProperty(key)) vars.push(key + '=' + urlObj.params[key]); return urlObj.base + '?' + vars.join('&'); } //fix keyword for old google image search if(ref.match(/^http:\/\/images\.google\./) || ref.match(/^http:\/\/images\.google$/)) { var refUrl = splitUrl(ref); if(refUrl.params.prev && !refUrl.params.q) { var prev = decodeURIComponent(refUrl.params.prev); if(prev.indexOf('?q=') !== -1 || prev.indexOf('&q=') !== -1) { var prevUrl = splitUrl(prev); refUrl.params.q = prevUrl.params.q; if(!refUrl.params.q) refUrl.params.q = encodeURIComponent('(not provided)'); delete prevUrl.params.q; refUrl.params.prev = encodeURIComponent(joinUrl(prevUrl)); } _gaq.push(['_setReferrerOverride', joinUrl(refUrl)]); } else if(!refUrl.params.q) { refUrl.params.q = encodeURIComponent('(not provided)'); _gaq.push(['_setReferrerOverride', joinUrl(refUrl)]); } } _gaq.push(['_addOrganic', 'images.google', 'q']); _gaq.push(['_addOrganic', 'maps.google', 'q', true]); </code></pre> <p>This handles all of the referres that look like: <a href="http://images.google.com/?q=" rel="nofollow">http://images.google.com/?q=</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/?imgres=" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/?imgres=</a></p> <p>I don't know where the referral traffic is coming from. Has anyone else seen this?</p>

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