I need some help finding where traffic is coming from...not regular analytics help
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I am a new editor on a large site. This is not my own site so I do not have access to analytics.
I have a few articles that were written years ago by a former editor. The articles were all link lists to resources. And about 99% of the links no longer worked. I was surprised to see that the articles were still getting decent traffic to them. And were on page 1 of Google for the keyword phrase in the article title.
I checked using the Adwords tool from Google.com. The search volume listed for the title keyword phrase there is about 1/3 to 1/4 lower than the traffic these particular articles are getting.
So here is my first question: Is there a way to use the URL of the articles to find out everywhere that has listed them, other search engines and sites?
Second question. As I go forward and write more articles for my section, is there an Unobtrusive way to put a small analytics code in the HTML of each article so I can monitor where the traffic comes from?
Remember this is not my site. It is a big online site. So I have to be sure that any traffic code I use the reader will either not see or their attention will not be taken away from the article. I do not have access to the header or footer only the article body area. Which does allow HTML.
Thank you for any help! If I have not explained this well, please let me know
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Nothing to see here folks.....move along.