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It’s so frustrating that you can’t usually find which forum thread is linking to your website, because under the referring site report, cross segment performance, content report, it truncates the URL at the end of the filename, so you end up with items like:
/forums/showthread.php
/forums/viewtopic.php
etc.
I managed to find a way to use the urchinTracker function to place the exact referring URL into the top content report. I know it’s a bit of a nasty hack, but I’m willing to live with it, here’s how to do it:
1) Make sure you place the standard tracking code in the HEAD section of the page, rather than right before the end BODY tag that it usually recommends.
2) Use this body tag:
Here’s a quick screenshot of the results:Code:<body onload="javascript:urchinTracker(document.referrer);">
Once you run this report, you can then apply a filter at the top of “http” to only show the exact referrers.
The urchintracker script is usually used for tracking javascript or Flash events :
Google Analytics Help Center - What is urchinTracker and how can it help me?
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This is a discussion on Google Analytics Hack - obtaining full referring URL within the Analysis: Traffic & SERPS forums, part of the vBulletin SEO Discussion category; found this on digg... -- It’s so frustrating that you can’t usually find which forum thread is linking to your ...
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I'd love to see this implemented in vbSEO.
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Does this still work?
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Would be nice to see something like this implemented in the vBSEO's GA integration feature.
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This already works with vBSeo ... mine just shows the friendly url.
Note that this thread as more than a year.
- No. The friendly rewritten URLs of 'my' Forum are appearing fine in the analytics. But the 'referring' showthread / forumdisplay pages of 'other' Forums having default URLs of type : filename.php?query-string aren't getting tracked fully by Google Analytics. (the query string get's truncated).
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My mistake ... sorry!
Where can I see this stats?Last edited by nfn; 11-19-2008 at 06:10 PM.
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works?Code:pageTracker._trackPageview(document.referrer);
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