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Blocking referral traffic
I am currently getting a massive amount of referral traffic to my site (Spam), that can sometime generate 1-2 GB worth of traffic per a day (which kinda sucks, when you have a 10GB limit from the ...
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I can see traffic coming from google ads, even though I don't have any google ads running, how is that possible?
I can see "googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads...." as a referrer on my website. However I am not running any google ads. So how am I getting the traffic?
Here's the complete URL
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Anywhere to get a list of referrer spammers?
I do my own log processing using my own self-written analyzer. That means I have to deal with the continual nuisance of referrer spammers. Is there anywhere I can get an up-to-date list of referrer ...
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SVG in CSS backgrounds
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How can I detect in php if the client browser is capable of displaying SVG as CSS background ?
I renamed my stylesheet from .css to .css.php. So I can include at the beginning:
<?php
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How does Google Analytics track referring URLs?
When a visitor clicks on a link or is redirected to my site from another site, Google typically includes information about the page the domain and the page the visitor was linked from.
How does ...
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Why is Google showing up as a referral instead of a search engine in Google Analytics?
In Google Analytics, why does Google show up sometimes under an organic medium, and other times as a referral? (They frequently have the same landing page.)
As I understand (and I'm just as likely ...
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wwwstumbleupon.com referring domain in web stats
I've noticed in my own stats, as well as searching on other sites, a fair amount of traffic that comes from urls that look like this:
http://wwwstumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http://[mydomain]/[myurl]
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Can I allow access to a HTML page only if the user comes from a specific site with .htaccess?
A website with two HTML pages, A and B.
Both can be accessed by typing the URL, of course.
However, can I disallow any access to page B, and only allow it if the user is coming from page A? As in, a ...
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How to track specific Referrals with Google Analytics
How do I have to alter a Referral link to my website to specifically track it with Google Analytics? I already discovered the URL Builder but isn't there are shorter way?
For example:
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How to track subdomains with Google Analytics while having mod_rewrite redirect to a subdomain?
When users come directly to domain.com or www.domain.com, I am redirecting them to shop.domain.com via this .htaccess rewrite:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [OR]
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Track/View new incoming links with Google Analytics
Is there a way to track new incoming links to my website?
When I visit "Traffic Sources -> Referring Sites" in my Google Analytics account I have a list with 5,391 sites so its quiet hard to discover ...
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Google analytics direct traffic report
We launched a blog post which got picked up by a lot of social sites and it's given us a lot of traffic over the last few days.
In Google Analytics though, the blog post page has all the hits with ...
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Impossible referrers
I'm tracking webpage referrers. Sometimes I see russian (or other languages) blogs as referrer, which cover other subjects.
Googling "site:http://myrussianblog.ru mywebsite" returns nothing.
I don't ...
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Analytics referrer forum thread
When I'm in analytics I sometimes get a referral from a forum, something like:
http://forums.example.com
Then when I click on it, it gives me a page like:
/viewTopic.php
Is there any way to get ...
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Should I just ban everyone who has no language setting?
I am constantly seeing in my logs the same type of visitor:
They have no language setting, i.e.
$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] == ''
so it's empty, and their referrer is some scam server in ...
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Referrer traffic
I noticed repeat visits to my site from various websites, all located in the Ukraine. I looked at the source of the pages and see no links to neither my domain nor IP.
I am wondering of the origin ...
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Referrer Strings
I'm not exactly sure how to ask this, but here I go.
I work for a company that provides IT services. Our main costumer has a website developed by WebCompany.com, and I act as a maintainer/middle-man ...
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Difference between two kinds of Bing URL Referers
Most of the referral URLS that I get from Bing have the following syntax:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=keywords+keywords&[some other variables]
However I just noticed that maybe 10-20% of them ...
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Where does the HTTP referer “applewebdata” come from?
My site uses a web stat service like Google Analytics, it uses a piece of javascript code to log what pages the visitor has visited and the refer url of each visit. I got some referer "applewebdata", ...
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Tracking based on URL referral?
Users on my site are given unique URL's for me to then track how many people they have referred to my site.
IE: http://www.example.com/FQ3DL (FQ3DL being the unique code/url)
The first thing I'd ...
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Google analytics reporting link as campaign instead of referral
There are several websites which link to my blog posts but are using links from feedburner (similar too http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutMyCode/~3/something ) so when someone visits these links it ...
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Can I remove visible referer from link?
I use referer info to track which of my campaigns works the best. So instead of
<a href="someweb.com">someweb</a>
I have a link like
<a ...
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Temporary redirect needs to detect the URL of original page request from a search engine then redirect again to that page
I've tried searching this an innumerable amount of times with different word combinations, can't seem to crack it. Apparently I do not know the right terms in this situation.
When you come to my ...
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can I forward “referrer” information to other address?
I have two addresses for two servers:
www.urlA.com
www.urlB.com
I have all my websites installed in www.urlB.com, but visitors recognize www.urlA.com primarily.
I have www.urlA.com/index.php as ...
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Weird referral traffic [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Strange incoming links appearing on site statistics
I'm getting weird traffic from Japan, from a site called ime.nu
Why weird? because I'm not able to identify the link ...
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Verifying that a user comes from a 'partner' site?
We're building a Drupal module that is going to be given to trusted 'corporate partners'. When a user clicks on a link, he should be redirected to our site as if he's a logged in user.
How should I ...
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What is the best way to deal with a homepage url change
The url for my homepage has changed. What is the best way to announce at the previous location that it has moved to the new location (so that search engines -- Google -- also take notice)?
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Google Analytics include querystring
I've taken an advert out on a site with instruction to point it to:
http://www.example.com/?source=gmb
In Analytics, how do I go about analysing it's data? I can't find anywhere to see people who ...
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How can I pass referrer header from my https domain to http domains?
My website is 100% https. I have links to other http domains. The referrer header is not set when linking from a https page to a http page. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
If a ...
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Website traffic referral from cfauth.com
Google Analytics is reporting several referrals from a site called cfauth.com.
I can't seem to find any information on this site other than it's connection to a security firm. It's definitively not a ...
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What is g1sense.int.godaddy.com?
I recently looked at my list of referrers (ie, previous page the user was on), and one odd one is a link like http://g1sense.int.godaddy.com:15871/cgi-bin/blockOptions.cgi?ws-session=3372311093
The ...
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Basic tracking of conversion from Adwords using referrer, is it possible? (both Ads in SERP and in Content Network)
Reading in Adwords Help it seems the only way to track clicks to my site from Adwords is to use the Google code snippet.
If I don't want to use such snippet, and simply track the referrer, can we say ...
