What's The Difference Between google and google.com

[Planet13]

Hi there, Everyone:

I am looking at the entrance sources for a page, and it says that google was UP nearly 10% but that google.com was DOWN 81%

So what in the word is google.com supposed to refer to? Is it entrances from adwords? Or entrances from google merchant? Or something else?

Thanks in advance.

[koan]

International versions of google have different TLDs, like google.ca, google.fr, etc.

[mazaru]

Most likely, google is referring to search traffic from Google's main search, while google.com is referral traffic from other Google sites/products. For instance, some Google News and Google Finance traffic turns up as referrals.

[Planet13]

@ koan:

International versions of google have different TLDs, like google.ca, google.fr, etc.

Thanks. I actually do see separate Non-US listings (such as google.ca and google.de etc) as well as the google and google.com listings.

@ mazaru

Most likely, google is referring to search traffic from Google's main search, while google.com is referral traffic from other Google sites/products.

Would google.com then include referrals from adwords as well? I don't see any listing in the sources for adwords, and I would like to see what the traffic from adwords is.

[mazaru]

No - do you have automatic tagging set up for your Adwords campaigns? If so, you should see it in Campaigns.

[Planet13]

No - do you have automatic tagging set up for your Adwords campaigns? If so, you should see it in Campaigns.

No, I don't I will have to look into to doing that. Thanks for letting me know.