Two days ago i published a new article on my website, Racebooking.net, and taking a look at Google Analytics, i found something amazing!!
I had 10 times more visitors than average on these 3 days. This means somebody shared my article on some website.
What i would love to know is:
On which website the article was shared. For instance, a user sees
the link to my article posted to somewebsite.com -> the user clicks on the link -> the user
arrives on my website. This way Google Analytics should be able to
tell me that one user came from somewebsite.com, right?
If possible, the exact page on which
the link was shared. For example, if it was shared on a forum, i
wanna go to that page in order to "spy" comments and know what people think about my
article
Is Google Analytics capable to do it? If not, how can i get what i want?
I really need to know these info to improve my website!
Thanks guys
You should be able to go to Acquisition > All Referrals to see an overview the websites that referred traffic to your site. Once you find a site you'd like to see more info on, click that site and you can see the exact page from which the referral came from.
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I have spent countless amount of time researching an answer for this task, but to no avail. Needing some help from the GA experts.
We have a URL that redirects to a landing page on our website.
This mentioned URL is used for radio ads (ex. www.abc.com)
The URL is just a domain...no actual website.
Will use this as an example:
www.abc.com redirects to www.ourcompanysite.com/service-page-city
The goal is to see how many times someone went to www.abc.com, and basically track web page visits from the radio ad.
Been having some trouble getting this type of measurement created, and also don't want to interfere with any of our existing goals.
Any experience with this type of cross-domain tracking?
I created a hugo ssg blog for my mother which is hosted on netlify. The intent of blog was just to keep her busy during pandemic, therefore, it's just lists of articles. No like/dislike, no comments, no other functionalities. Only JS included is Google and Bing Analytics.
I was going through analytics and found random fbclid urls in page visits. After some research I followed advice from this stackoverflow page and stopped worrying. After few months, I see bots visit on /fblogin.htm. Remember,I have not added anything related to FB on the site. There is no fblogin.htm on the site, There is no sharing of blog post on fb. I have no idea why bots from facebook would look for a non-existent page on the site. Is it because of <meta og:...> tags in head? Can someone explain to me what is happening here and should I be worried about it? I occasionally get random spikes of 5-15 visits from china, turkey, finland or some other random country via these fb bots. Should I be concerned?
fblogin.htm should be explored, however fbclid is a parameter that Facebook hangs when you click on a post in Facebook that leads to your site.
So if the link to a page of your site is on Facebook (i.e. in a post) and someone has clicked on it, you will find that parameter in Google Analytics append to the landing page.
IMHO you need to be precise about 'few family members' and 'we tell them on phone' - are you sure how this was shared between them? is anyone Whatsup user or was this shared via Xiaomi or other China phone ? Also if the blog is not password protected those Facebook variables could just be used by the bots to mimic human behaviour
Can anyone tell me how can I track number of views,likes,comments and shares in a collaboration and community site. This is not a Google site. This site was created using lumapps. It's a collaboration site, Which works similar to Google+, where you can write a blog, post and like/ share the same. I need a way of keep tracking the likes/shares/views on such posts or blogs, So that I can display the same in Google data studio.
I heard it's possible using Google tag manager. Can anyone confirm this OR let me know about anyways of achieving the same.
Thanks and Regards
Kumar
You would do this by sending an event to Google Analytics and using this source in Data Studios.
Please see reference on how to send events using Google Tag Manager and custom Variables.
https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/6106716?hl=en
I am trying to understand my Google Analytics because it is showing me landing and exit pages from my site which are the same, and broken, but I don't understand how users are coming to these pages that seem to have part of the link from my YouTube account.
Here is what I am seeing
this is the link to my youtube account.
https://www.youtube.com/user/russandnela
and as we can see it has this part on the end /user/russandnela
But I can't work out why people would be hitting my site. If anyone wants to take a look and try to help that would be fantastic.
I've been using google analytics for my website for awhile now and haven't had any problems. Just today though I checked the all pages tab under Behavior->Site Content and found something very strange. A bunch of pages that aren't on in my websites directory are now appearing there and saying they have traffic (albeit very little). Here's a link to an image of the pages: http://imgur.com/keXaQzD
I've verified that non of these pages exist on my live server or in the directory on my local machine. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Or how I can get rid of these pages on my website? I've searched around on google but have had no luck figuring out whats going on.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Timothy it looks like you are just seeing Referral/Referrer Spam.
Here are a couple of my favorite links on the subject:
Definitive Guide to Removing Referral Spam
What is Referrer Spam and How to stop it
4 things you must know about Spam in Google Analytics
Its a good idea to have a Raw View with no filters, but then also a filtered view with a include:yourdomainname.com added, to filter out any possible hits sent by people copying your GA tracking code.