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Is There Any Way to Determine How Much Traffic I'm Getting?

by Brian Cook
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Let's say I buy a domain name such as, "HowToDiet.com"
and forward that domain directly to a product that I'm an
affiliate for... is there any way to track how much traffic
that domain is getting?

(I realize that forwarding the domain name to my own
landing page has lots of benefits, but I'm really just
wondering how to track traffic for the above situation)

Thanks!
#determine #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Spencer Haws
    I would like to know this as well. I have tried Google Analytics; and the hit does not register on a forward/redirect domain.

    Anyone else have any ideas??
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    • Profile picture of the author jendoe
      I'm doing this, and Google is showing me hits! I'm not sure if it's accurate, or how on earth it's working...

      I have a cheap .info domain. I link to it from an article at Goarticles.

      The index file there is just an empty html page, that has the redirect done in the headers, to the affiliate page.

      I DID add the google analytics code that google gave me when I tried to register the site, but google didn't seem to pick it up right away... I basically added it, and forgot about it when it wasn't working... A couple weeks later, Google is showing traffic on the site...

      It might even be accurate... all the traffic is shown as either coming from Goarticles or direct traffic (which I assume is me). Disclaimer, "all the traffic" is a whole 6 views right now

      So... I don't know... is it possible Google is smart enough to pick up that people are requesting this page and track that traffic, even though they are immediately sent to another page from a redirect in the headers?

      If there's a better way to do this, I'd love to hear about it too!
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      • Profile picture of the author PaulWilson
        If you add the code to the page that you are redirecting to and add the filename (.html) to google analytics it seems to pick it up ok.

        Just add the code to each .html file that you want to track within the domain, and within 24 hours it should pick it up and start tracking your traffic

        Worked ok for me...I have it tracking my main sites, then the opt-in page so I can see my % opt-in etc.

        Hope this helps,

        Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    Yes, there is a very easy way to do this. When you set up the forwarding, instead of sending the visitors to somesite.com send them to somesite.com?tid=1234, where tid would be whatever tracking identifier the site uses. Then in the reporting you'll see how many hops you had for that id.
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    If you have cpanel (and perhaps Hostgator hosting) - there is a traffic count on your cpanel main page for each domain. Or, your awstats will also have this information, even for a redirected domain.
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