We have two domains such that www.example.org is redirecting to www.example.com. We want to track how many times someone gets to example.com from the example.org redirect. How can do do this in Google Analytics?
Can you add utm tags to the URL in the .htaccess file? Or is there an even better way to do this?
I use the solution of adding UTM parameters to the redirects. It is the only thing that I've found that works well with Google Analytics.
When somebody visits my example.net domain they get redirected to:
http://example.com/?utm_campaign=domainnames&utm_medium=domain&utm_source=example.net
Then I can get a "campaign" report in Google Analytics that shows me the visitors:
