Seo Redirect Check

Check for redirected sites on my Website’s Analytics?

Hey I am not sure if you guys get my question or not, so I will add more information here. I have about 20 different url’s that automatically just redirect to my site. So if my website was www.123.com, I have sites such as www.abc.com, www.321.com and so on. My analytics is set up for www.123.com, I want to know, using my Google Analytics, whether or not I can find out which sites they are entering from. It would be nice to know if they are entering from www.abc.com, so then I can make that website SEO friendly as well. BTW those are not my real websites, just examples.

Dear FDSF,

Before discussing solutions, you have to know/remember that the redirection mechanism put in place doesn’t allow the execution of the Google Analytics (GA) Tracking Code (GATC) client side, which is what feeds GA with raw data to increment your stats. So REDIRECTION = NO STATS by default.

There are few solutions, but only one viable in your case:

1) add a paramater to the URL sent to redirect clients (for instance www.abc.com redirects to www.123.com/?ref=www.abc.com, you can use any convention instead of the explicit name as the value for “ref”), and create a separate profile in GA with a custom filter for “Request URI” including only “^/?ref=”.

2) parse your web site logs to compute a breakdown per source. Less elegant, requires some development skills or an excellent knowledge of certains text editors, but as efficient and more reliable (we say as a joke “logs don’t lie”).

Furthermore, this solution allows for the referer to be properly relaid to the final site www.123.com, so not only you’re able to track the source channel (www.abc.com, www.321.com) but you can see within GA what are the referers of such channels (e.g., a user searched www.google.com for a given keyword combination, found www.abc.com, and was redirected to www.234.com/?ref=www.abc.com, so in GA you can select the page “/^ref=www.abc.com” and see all the source traffic info, including keywords, search engine, country, city, etc.)

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Pascal

SEO Backlink & PageRank Building Secret