Number of Referrers is less than Search Engine Terms
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Number of Referrers cannot be less less than Search Engine Terms in any case. Further I never see Bing and Yahoo in my referrers list. But the general observation is that number of Referrers is less than Search Engine Terms. Can anybody tell me why?
Official definition of each terms:
Search Engine Terms
These are the terms, words, and phrases people use, through various search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing), to find posts and pages on your WordPress.com blog. Please note that these do not include the terms which your readers use within your blog’s Search Widget or any other search form on your blog.
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Some quotes from the support documentation entry on Stats
http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#search-engine-terms
Search Engine Terms
These are the terms, words, and phrases people use, through various search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing), to find posts and pages on your WordPress.com blog. Please note that these do not include the terms which your readers use within your blog’s Search Widget or any other search form on your blog.http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#additional-info
Why doesn’t the number of referrers add up to the number of total views?
Not all visitors will land on your blog by clicking a link somewhere else. Visitors may type your URL directly into the web browser, click a link in an email, or click a link in another application which then loads the browser. Visitors that come from search engines will also not be counted as referrers because they’ll be listed in the search engine terms.If the support documentation entry on Stats does not provide an answer to your question please go directly to Staff > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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@TIMETHIEF: thats what I am saying… Number of Referrers cannot be less less than Search Engine Terms in any case.
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Yes I got that. Did you get me? If the support documentation entry on Stats does not provide an answer to your question please go directly to Staff > http://support.wordpress.com/contact/
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@minerva09
G’morning to you. :) Staff due monitor forum threads but IMO it’s best to file a support ticket and then return to this thread and post the answer you receive from Staff so we are all aware of it. The choice is yours, of course. -
It’s pretty much a pointless gesture to add up totals these days, as many browser security add-ons filter out referrer records, and some browsers don’t properly report incoming search engine terms.
The two are really just a convenience and easy reference point, but trying to get everything to add up is just going to make you crazy.
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