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(Entry was posted by Yogesh Dhawa on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/15/2015).

100% Bounce Rate Direct Visitors

Hi,

Complicated Things are happening.

All keywords of a business are on the first page of google but at the bottom 8, 9 and 10th rank. Google is showing a total of 3000 avg monthly searches of all keywords but analytics showing no organic traffic and no phone calls from customers? why is that? Check an image below - 100% bounce rate for direct visitors (not sure from where this direct traffic is coming from) and no organic traffic? any idea? what am i doing wrong?
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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Yogesh Dhawan: Hi,

    Complicated Things are happening.

    All keywords of a business are on the first page of google but at the bottom 8, 9 and 10th rank. Google is showing a total of 3000 avg monthly searches of all keywords but analytics showing no organic traffic and no phone calls from customers? why is that? Check an image below - 100% bounce rate for direct visitors (not sure from where this direct traffic is coming from) and no organic traffic? any idea? what am i doing wrong?
  • Stephan Weiland: Maybe this has to do with Referrer Spam. Please click on "Referrals" which is located in the left hand menu 3 positions below the active "Channels" item and look which URLs are listed. If there is something like free-socials-buttons.com or howtostopreferralspam.eu then you should consider adding a filter to your site (you'll ; find a lot of tutorials on the net for referrer spam).
    http://www.webseitemobil.de/
  • Suresh Kumar: I have same issue on my website. ;free-socials-buttons .com is the what I have seen on my referrer list. Thank You for helping. ;
  • Yogesh Dhawan: Yes, free social buttons.com and get free traffic.com etcc are referral sites. not sure why and how it relates to organic traffic?
  • Honza Felt: Yes, it's most likely referral spam, as +Stephan Weiland ;says. If you are looking for a way to get rid of it or to at least minimise its impact on your data, check this out: http://cbfp.eu/ReferralSpam.
  • Yogesh Dhawan: I understand that we can reduce the impact on referral spam but where is organic traffic gone? this website is on the first page for good volume keywords. I am shocked.
  • Honza Felt: OK, that's weird. And when you go to Source / Medium organic traffic still doesn't show up?
  • Yogesh Dhawan: No, It only shows direct traffic and referral spam websites.

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/15/2015).