Site getting referral traffic from its self

[Nightwing]

Buon giorno from zero degrees C freezing fog Wetherby UK

On this site http://www.collegeofphlebology.com i ran a referral report via Google Analytics and was surprised ro see referral traffic being counted from its own url, illustration here http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/referral-anomoly.jpg

So my question is please how can a site get referral traffic from the same url?

Grazie Tanto,

David

[JarnoNijzing]

Nightwing,

do you have any redirects installed from or to the root of your site? Do any pages result in a 404 redirect or anything?

This could explain it because the websites is then referring to its self. I have had that in the past because of  a redirect from an old page which resulted in a 404. When i fixed that my referring traffic disappeared.

Hope it helps

Regards

Jarno

[Horizon]

Hi David,

It's probably caused by the fact the website has a Spanish language subdomain, yet you only employ a root level (www.) analytics code across the root and subdomain. Within analytics, if you go to the Admin, Tracking Info, you should be able to toggle a setting to allow for subdomains. Generate this new script and place it into the source and that should do the trick.

Cheers

Matt

PS - it's minus 5 here in Bath... Brrr.

[JarnoNijzing]

David,

i just did a quick scan of your site with my sitemap program and it resulted in several 301 redirects. Could that be the problem?

deep-vein-thrombosis/contact-us = 301

duplex-ultrasound/contact-us = 301

endovenous-laser-ablation/contact-us = 301

great-saphenous-vein/contact-us = 301

leg-ulcers/contact-us = 301

ovarian-veins/ = 301

perforator-veins/contact-us = 301

radiofrequency-ablation/contact-us= 301

register/  =301

reticular-veins/ = 301

small-saphenous-vein/contact-us = 301

thread-veins/contact-us = 301

trlop/contact-us = 301

varicose-veins/contact-us = 301

Even if these don't result in the internal referring results i think you should clean these up.

regards

Jarno

[Nightwing]

Thank you everyone looks like Ive got an indexing cluster fu@k on my hands

[Nightwing]

Hi Jamo...

I'm going to run an link audit on the site and get a fix on whats what. Let the fun begin

[Nightwing]

Hi Jamo...

I'm going to run an link audit on the site and get a fix on whats what. Let the fun begin

[JarnoNijzing]

Hope you can fix it rather sooner then later.

Hope my information fixes your website up a bit.

You're welcome.

Kind regards

Jarno