Paid Search Referral
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I have a brand new site with a paid search referral in my G&A, but we are not running any adwords or any paid marketing for it. The referral is "not set" so I do not know where it is coming from.
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It went to our Taleo Careers page. It is weird that it was only one out of a few hundred. The referral path is also not set.
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Also, it is worth mentioning that it depends on what Google Analytics report you are looking at. Sometimes the value will be set to "(not set)" if you are looking at the keywords that drove traffic to the site for each traffic source, and in that case, any visit that did not come from a keyword will be (not set), such as referring sites since they obviously did not come from a keyword...
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Hmm, typically (not set) means AdWords is not correctly linked to the Google Analytics account. But as you said, you are not doing AdWords or any paid marketing. Can you dig in to see what the landing page was? Or where the visitor was located? That may help clear up some questions. Also, here is more information from Google - https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2820717?hl=en
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