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Increase in self-referrals in Google Analytics since implementation of CDN
Since the implementation of a CDN, my self-referrals have gone from being non-existent to thousands per day, the referral report in analytics with full referrer as a secondary dimension show that the ...
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Setup Google Analytics 4 property from 2 different tags
To measure my top-level domain and my subdomain I have installed 2 different Google tags in each of them and use 2 Google Analytics properties (Say Site & App). I am looking to setup a 3rd Google ...
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Traffic source issue in GA4 with subfolders
We have established 2 properties from 2 different accounts in ga4 for tracking our website general English root domain example.com in the first property and tracking its subfolder example.com/es/ in ...
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What characters should be escaped in canonical url's?
Should I url-encode non-ascii characters in canonical url's?
That is, should i use
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/öland">
...or
<link rel="...
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Weird increase of url visited reported in Google Analytics
Oddly, there has been lately a very significant increase of 404 errors detected in Google Console Insights for some website I run.
I checked Google Analytics for that website: the URLs that give the ...
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What could cause a huge drop-off in traffic from two specific countries? (Germany and US)
We launched a new website in March this year and site traffic has been fairly consistent, however, since the beginning of September I noticed a huge drop off in traffic, all of which seems to be ...
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Google Analytics 4 showing all traffic is "Direct"
1 week after setting up a new site with Google Analytics 4, GA stopped showing any search engine traffic information and now shows all traffic as Direct
I'm stumped as to why GA is losing all ...
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Another site not owned by us chosen for the Google-selected canonical
One of our sites is affected by negative SEO. In our Google Search Console, we notice that Google has chosen a different domain as the canonical URL. We don't own that domain. How it got there is ...
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Redirected to www, but Google is indexing no-www without snippets, should I use noindex instead?
I started my blog a month ago and was using non www version for my website.
Then, I recently decided to stick to www.example.com version. So I changed it and Google has indexed the www version ...
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Duplicate without user selected canonical, even though pages are different. Why?
I am using the Search Console and I encountered this problem with my Angular 7 app for a webshop. At first, I thought it was a Javascript rendering problem, but made sure all server resources were ...
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Analytics imported conversions show as "No recent conversions"
I have imported a few goals from Analytics into Google Ads, but they show as "No recent conversions":
The reason it's confusing me is that there are quite a few conversions in Analytics.
I believe ...
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Matrix URL vs query string URL
Matrix URL is a way to pass data in URL to the program, it's like a query string, but a bit nicer.
Matrix URL notation is an idea first introduced in a 1996 proposal by
the founder of the web, ...
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Google Analytics payment gateway referrals whack-a-mole
My employer uses third-party payment gateways to process debit and credit card payments on our website. Until recently, including these in GA's Referral Exclusion list has been adequate to make sure ...
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Google Analytics shows sessions but zero users
Is this crazy?
Why is Google Analytics showing sessions but no users?
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"google.co.uk / referral" in Source/Medium of Google Analytics
Google Search results appear to be coming up in our Google Analytics as Referrals. I've tested using a Realtime report, and it's definitely proper search results, not traffic from a different Google ...
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