Marketing analytics & search queries
Channel, UTM, and campaign performance, plus Search Console keywords.
Marketing groups sessions by channel (organic, paid, social, referral, direct, email) and by the individual UTM parameters and campaigns you're running, so you can compare volume and downstream conversion across everything you're actively promoting.
How a channel is decided
Channels are resolved from ad click IDs first (gclid, msclkid and friends), then UTM tags, then the referrer. Click IDs matter because auto-tagged ad traffic often carries no UTMs at all — without them a paid click looks identical to direct traffic.
Search queries
The Search queries tab shows what people actually typed into Google. That data cannot come from the browser — engines have stripped the search term from the referrer since 2011-2013 and now send Referrer-Policy: origin — so it comes from your own Search Console property, which you connect from that tab.
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