301 Re-direct as referral traffic
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So we have this site set up in analytics as www.domain.com and then analytics is showing the referral traffic as coming from domain.com and I just wanted to make sure I'm right in the theory that Google is counting the 301 as a different site and showing what is otherwise direct traffic as traffic coming from domain.com.
If that's wrong let me know. Otherwise I'll just go through with that theory since no one on any forums that I could find had an answer to it.
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If you have CPANEL, you should be able to access it there. Some other server access systems may also drop a copy into a directory you can access, you may be able to look around in your panel's file manager - look in your local root directory/logs
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Good point, but I don't have access to our server logs. I'll need the developers to check.
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Kate:
I suggest looking in your own server logs and trace through what you see in there, so you can understand what is happening on your server. You can't just look in analytics and get the answer.
Alan
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