Homepageurl/homepageurl
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Hello All,
In Google analytic & moz reports our homepage is being tracked as www.example.co.uk/www.example.co.uk.
Have checked every where this url does not exist, very confused and worried where this url is coming from.
when i accessed this url from address bar it lands on 404
but still in google analytic and moz i can see traffic coming on this url .
i spoke with google analytic support they informed me its the home page of the site.
To what i know , home page should show as /
Any help highly appreciated.
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Thank you Martijn
I checked the settings in Google analytic and Default page in admin setting was set to the home page. This was optional. and the tool tip said.
"Enter the default page for your domain so that multiple URLs that point to the same page are treated as the same entry in your reports. For example, if example.com and example.com/index.html both open the same page, you can enter index.html in this field."
After unchecking this field the homepage is showing as /
Thank you for your answer.
Cheers
Sohail
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I personally think this is a problem from the CMS end, if you are using CMS like Zencart or Joomla, this usually happens. Also, there is a possibility that some internal linking within the website is using this kind of URL by mistake and that is why crawlers are picking this up.
Check both possibilities and I hope one of them should resolve your problem.
Hope this helps!
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Thank you for your responses.
Please find below a img url of screeshot of my analytic console. The highlighted one at the bottom is the home page, before it was displaying as just with a forward slash /
now it is got /domainname.co.uk
hope this gives you clear picture to wht i mean
Sohail
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Hi,
I am a little unsure exactly what is being asked here.
"www.example.co.uk/www.example.co.uk" certainly is not the URL of your homepage, it doesn't follow basic url structure.
Could you provide a screenshot to the screens that are making you think this URL is being tracked? Im guessing its just some confusion and its actually tracking "www.example.co.uk" and the /www.example.co.uk bit is just the way in which it is displaying it to you for some reason. Hard to know without knowing where you seeing it.
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It could be that a filter is applied to add the hostname to the pages in the content reports in Google Analytics. Can you check these in your Google Analytics account?
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