Tracking forwarding / vanity URLS

[Nightwing]

Buongiorno from 18 Degrees sunny wetherby UK

Am i right in thinking you can track a forwarding urls via Google analytics. Put another way if a site points www.kissmymelons.co.uk to www.lickmybanana.co.uk can you measure how many referrals where generated from kissmymelons.co.uk

I'm 69% sure the referral data will appear in the referral source section in Google analytics but I need to be 100% sure

Grazie tanto,
David

[TomRayner]

Hi David

Provided that the GA profile you're looking at is lickmybanana.co.uk, then yes - you'll be able to see all of the referral traffic from kissmymelons.co.uk

You find the data in the left-hand column of analytics here: http://i.imgur.com/qkHzy23.png

I've never had a problem of the referral data not tracking - the only thing to consider would be the use of any URL shorterners.

Hope this helps.

[Nightwing]

Hi Tom ive since learnt that in this scenario the best thing to do is ad a tracking parameter...