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Why does my site get itself as referral in Google Analytics?

by KingOfDCP
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Hello all,

I don't know why my site still gets itself as referral in Google Analytics. I read some articles about redirect 301 from www to non-www and I did it with .htaccess but it doesn't solve problem. Could any one give me some suggestion?

My site is i-fresh.net (my sign)
#analytics #google #referral #site
  • Profile picture of the author thatkeywordguy
    your site shows up as referring itself?

    never heard of that one

    seems common though

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  • Profile picture of the author jimmyn
    Do you have canonical urls set up? Might be a better solution than a redirect.

    Don't know if this is the problem, but this helps anyway.

    I suppose it could be from links to your site on twitter, social media and forums, which very often use redirects or url shortening.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimmyn
    Actually it won't be twitter, as that always shows up as twitter as far as i've seen.
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  • Profile picture of the author KingOfDCP
    I see facebook.com and t.co in my referral traffic too. And of course, my site is in the top of referral. I don't know why. Is there anyway to stop this ?
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    • Profile picture of the author wisedave
      I am getting this too....any ideas on what the process is to fix it or should I not worry?

      Cheers,

      Dave
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  • Profile picture of the author kimseo
    Originally Posted by KingOfDCP View Post

    Hello all,

    I don't know why my site still gets itself as referral in Google Analytics. I read some articles about redirect 301 from www to non-www and I did it with .htaccess but it doesn't solve problem. Could any one give me some suggestion?

    My site is i-fresh.net (my sign)

    Most likely google analytics tracking code has not been install on all the pages.
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