Site getting referral traffic from its self
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Buon giorno from zero degrees C freezing fog Wetherby UK
On this site http://www.collegeofphlebology.com i ran a referral report via Google Analytics and was surprised ro see referral traffic being counted from its own url, illustration here http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/referral-anomoly.jpg
So my question is please how can a site get referral traffic from the same url?
Grazie Tanto,
David
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Hope you can fix it rather sooner then later.
Hope my information fixes your website up a bit.
You're welcome.
Kind regards
Jarno
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Hi Jamo...
I'm going to run an link audit on the site and get a fix on whats what. Let the fun begin
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Hi Jamo...
I'm going to run an link audit on the site and get a fix on whats what. Let the fun begin
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Thank you everyone looks like Ive got an indexing cluster fu@k on my hands
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David,
i just did a quick scan of your site with my sitemap program and it resulted in several 301 redirects. Could that be the problem?
deep-vein-thrombosis/contact-us = 301
duplex-ultrasound/contact-us = 301
endovenous-laser-ablation/contact-us = 301
great-saphenous-vein/contact-us = 301
leg-ulcers/contact-us = 301
ovarian-veins/ = 301
perforator-veins/contact-us = 301
radiofrequency-ablation/contact-us= 301
register/ =301
reticular-veins/ = 301
small-saphenous-vein/contact-us = 301
thread-veins/contact-us = 301
trlop/contact-us = 301
varicose-veins/contact-us = 301
Even if these don't result in the internal referring results i think you should clean these up.
regards
Jarno
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Hi David,
It's probably caused by the fact the website has a Spanish language subdomain, yet you only employ a root level (www.) analytics code across the root and subdomain. Within analytics, if you go to the Admin, Tracking Info, you should be able to toggle a setting to allow for subdomains. Generate this new script and place it into the source and that should do the trick.
Cheers
Matt
PS - it's minus 5 here in Bath... Brrr.
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Nightwing,
do you have any redirects installed from or to the root of your site? Do any pages result in a 404 redirect or anything?
This could explain it because the websites is then referring to its self. I have had that in the past because of a redirect from an old page which resulted in a 404. When i fixed that my referring traffic disappeared.
Hope it helps
Regards
Jarno
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