Problem with site referrals and .htaccess redirect

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by RKM, Oct 30, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi guys,

    I am new here, so thanks for any help even though I (yet!) couldn't give anything back to the community ;-)

    I have the following question.

    I am running a site that is available via multiple TLDs (.com, .de, .ch, .at etc.)

    The ".com" domain is supposed to be the main domain, the others are just to redirect users that try these domains.

    I configured a .htaccess redirect from any of the .something domains to the .com domain.

    However, now I have the following problem:
    If a user accesses .something and is redirected to .com, in all of my traffic statistics the referrer will be "mypage.something" and not the original referrer (i.e. google or something).

    Any ideas how to prevent this or how to do it "corretcly"?
    I did not want to use frame redirects due to their bad reputation, search-engine-wise (multiple content).

    Thanks for any help!

    Robert
     
    RKM, Oct 30, 2008 IP
  2. gostats

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    Can you post the contents of your.htaccess file? Also what webserver are you using?
     
    gostats, Nov 5, 2008 IP