Hi, This might be straight forward. I have a few domain names with no website on them all redirecting to one single website. Will these be recorded in my google analytics as traffic referred from these domains?
If you are http forwarding them from your server configuration, you will not have any records of the forwarding domains in your stats. You might want to log the forwarding done from your http server. If you are html forwarding using a meta refresh or javascript, then yes, you will notice the referrer in your stats.
Thanks for reply mate. What is the best way to do this? Do you know of info that will teach me how to redirect in the methods you just said? Thanks
Hi, A javascript or meta-refresh re-direct would look like this: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://new-url-here.com"> Code (markup): The javascript re-direct would look like this: <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- window.location = "http://new-url-here.com" //--> </script> Code (markup): Or the simple way is to just have a link. However, you may want to consider a http based redirect which appends a uniqe tag to your destination url with "?tagname=value".
This code goes into the <head> section of your site. If you are doing an http based re-driect, you will need to add a different rewrite code into your htaccess. (I suspect you may already have some code in the .htaccess.