Hi, I recieve a very good number of visitors to my site and the main call to action is to get customers to click through to a design feature where visitors can purchase products. Unfortunately, the design tool can not be hosted on the same domain, therefore when visitors are clicking through to the designer in the eyes of Google that will translate as a high bounce/exit rate. And this will damage my website page ranking. Is there any way around this? i.e indicating to Google that the external website is actually my own and not a 3rd party. Thankyou
You can use cross domain linking. This tells GA that you are the owner of multiple sites. https://moz.com/blog/cross-domain-subdomain-tracking-in-google-analytics#linking