You will notice there are four series on the legend. They are:
Media Exposure - This is the search you have selected, and will be the line graph attached to the left axis. The numbers indicate the amount of articles featuring the keywords in the search over the selected time period.
Other Sessions - This is the light blue bar, representing the total amount of sessions to your website during the selected time period. These sessions could have come from anywhere on the web, be it search, social, referrals, or people typing in your website address directly.
Referral Sessions - This is the darker blue bar which you see at the bottom of each bar, representing the amount of sessions to your website that whereby the visitor clicked on a link on another site to get there. For example, our LinkedIn page has a link to our website - if someone clicked on that link, that would count as a referral to meltwater.com.
Earned Referral Sessions - Given the amount of our website traffic, you can't make it out or see the reading on the chart above, but by clicking to remove the other sessions, it shows up more clearly below. This dark blue bar indicates the amount of people who got to your websites by clicking on articles from the Media Exposure search that were published in the last six months. Older articles can still generate traffic to your website - we'll make sure we account for them too!
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