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    • JamesMio
      JamesMio last edited by

      I'm working on two sites, with seperate Google Analytics, both referring to each other. Am I able to easily find out which keywords/pages referrals are being generated from each site?

      e.g.

      http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk - targets home consumers, and refers trade enquires to...

      http://www.seedpotatomerchants.co.uk - which targets bulk orders, and refers home growers back to jbaseedpotatoes.

      Question is, how can we track which keywords/pages are sending traffic between each site, quickly?

      Is it simply a case of trawling through each site's analytics to find out, or does anyone have any tips?

      Ultimately, we'd like to find out which keywords & pages are picking up traffic from the wrong target audiences.

      Thanks

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      • Mattbyo
        Mattbyo last edited by

        If a user can easily navigate between the two websites I would recommend using cross domain tracking.  Then you can setup a Global Profile to track both websites together and individual profiles for each website.  This would eliminate the duplication of visits within your analytics and should provide the information your looking for as cookies would be passed with the link method between your websites.

        The duplication mentioned above is a result that when a user enters site1 organically for the first time they are considered unique then if they navigate to site2 through a link, they are now a unique visitor on site2.  So when you look at how many visitors you have that particular visitor is counted twice.  Now maybe this doesn't matter to you but having worked with websites that pass visitors very easily we found cross domain tracking very important.

        I attached a video from Google about cross domain tracking Hash() is no longer needed and is not noted in the video but this should help you set up cross domain tracking should you decide it's needed.

        watch?v=gMMi5aFQmtM

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        • JamesMio
          JamesMio last edited by

          That looks exactly like what I was after - thanks Matt.

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