our business advertises on the classifieds website www.kijiji.ca, and as part of that they have a link back to our website on all of our advertisements. In what looks to be an effort to prevent tab-nabbing, kijiji recently added rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" to their 'referral' links. This had the unfortunate side-effect of breaking analytics for me, and any other person who advertises on kijiji.
I've taken this up with Kijiji, but as I suspect it's a security concern on their part I doubt they'll be open to changing it. They are currently investigating the issue.
At the same time as the original change, they forced '/referral=kijiji' to the end of any URL passed into their website link field. So, my question is if anyone knows of a way to configure a filter in analytics which sees that url and causes the hit to be attributed as a referral.
Of course, as a work around you can just go into the Landing Pages report and search for '/refferal=kijiji', but that breaks reporting and causes your Mediums/Sources reporting to falsely attribute referrals as direct traffic.
If anyone has a workaround I'd be very grateful! Thanks for reading.
As far as I'm aware, there isn't a way to set a referrer after the data has been collected by GA as raw GA data is not modifiable. You could send a virtual pageview with a utm parameter for attribution purposes. Keep in mind that this will inflate your pageviews count and will also consider the session to be a non-bounce.
If it were me, I'd fire an event when I detected '/referral=kijiji' in the URL and then create a segment of sessions that included the event. Be sure to use a non-interaction event so that your bounce rate isn't affected.
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I have an ads campaign and I don't know from where users came to my website and
How can I know which one of those links users click must
www.example.com/twitter
www.example.com/whatsapp
www.example.com/linkdIn
www.example.com/<this will be the source name>
I want to know which link users came from using GTM.
All links must open on the landing page.
Thanks.
You don't really need GTM to track click source. The GA script translates certain query parameters to traffic source dimensions automatically. Those query parameters are called UTM parameters. Here's the documentation on how they're mapped to GA data.
You can use the url builder tool to generate a url if you find it difficult to figure out the proper syntax.
Basically, you just generate a link to your landing, embedding there the information about the source and then you post the link on the said source. And you carefully do that for all sources.
Sure, GA also tracks the referrer, but TLS will eraze the query params of the referrer, so it may be much more awkward to use to determine the source, but GA already tries to parse the referrers to determine the source automatically, when no utm params are set. UTMs will override the automatic referrer logic.
Finally, GTM. GTM is powerful. It allows you to do more than that. For example, it's able to override the above described logic and set the source, medium, keyword, even referrer, using JS. Ultimately, mostly because of GTM's ability to deploy custom JS, it is possible to override any field in tracking and add extra fields.
I was wondering how I would be able to create an anonymous link (blanking the referrer) for redirection (so they are not 100% aware of where the client came from).
So for example, user visits mydomain.com/product/2/ and wants to be redirected to the cheapest offer out there othersite.com/product/aiwdkaDOW important here is that the 'othersite' has to see this request as an manual input (so it looks like that the client wrote the url down in the URL bar).
Actually I just like to create the same effect Linkonym has
Thanks in advanced.
Anonymizing a link seems a little more complex to me (due to the fact that you don't want the target link to know that the traffic came from you) but as I expected, there are APIs and even This GitHub project that might interest you.
I am running a website with affiliate links .
When the visitors of mydomain.com/page.php click on such an affiliate link,
they are being sent to a link on a domain owned by the affilate network (network.com/link), and then redirected through the affiliate network, to the relevant page in the store (store.com/page.asp).
Over the last two months, the reports of the affiliate network indicate that about 13,000 clicks that I sent to such links, carried mydomain.com/page.php as the referring URL, as I would expect.
However, about 20 other clicks carried abnormal referring URLs, such as:
http://app.mam.vaccint.com/getapp/CT3297962/mam.html
http://www.store.com/page.asp
http://www.network.com/link
http://apnwidgets.ask.com/widget/everest/radio/4/radio-button.html
http://search.yahoo.com/search
http://www.google.com/webhp
http://www.bing.com/
http://192.168.1.1/spyware/blockpage
Unfortunately, This has led the compliance team of my affiliate network to believe that I have a hidden traffic source apart from my website, they claim that it appears to be as if I am using some kind of a third party software to send traffic to store.com, which is not true of course.
They are holding me accountable for this situation and I am required to provide explanations to this situation.
What could have caused my website visitors to arrive at network.com / store.com while carrying the above referring URLs?
Not sure though, but looking at the referring URL's its quite certain that these pages had your content listed on their webpages. Like:
e.g. google.com/webhp - listing the result content / cache / image result of your webpage
Bing.com - another result related webpage (generally web cache)
192.168.1.1/spyware/blockpage - looks like someone accessed your portal but ended up reaching this firewall custom page. But somehow the affiliate widget got loaded as it would have been permitted by the firewall.
Store.com/page.asp & network.com/link - looks like some internal redirected urls which sent traffic to the relevant page (store.com/page.asp)
(rest other) - all other links also can have a similar story which ended up sending traffic to your affiliate network, but had another URL.
I'm sure if you replicate this case in front of them via Google cache / Bing cache, they would get a better understanding of the issue.
Else, try to identify the source referrer of page: network.com/link, which probably is under their control and they would have access to the logs.
I am trying to add the tab to a page I am admin of.
I use the url to do that -
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=&next=.
Facebook shows a list of all the pages I am admin of. And that drop down has no specific sorting order.
Now my problem is - I have multiple pages with same page name. They ofcourse have different urls. I tried changing the name of pages, but due to high number of likes I can't change the names.
The only option I am left with is hit & Trial. And I have to do it for more than 30 apps.
So you understand my pain point.
Please advice any alternative.
Thanks
Pankaj
I would recommend writing down the page ids and making some sort of system for yourself to remember (perhaps only the last few digits) which page is which.
In any case, there is a way for you to add a tab application directly to a page without ever seeing that "Add Page Tab" dialog. You can do it all through the API. This means you'll need your pages access token so head on over to the Graph API Explorer, make sure you click the "get access token" button and mark the manage_pages permission.
You need to query /me/accounts to get a list of all the pages you administer.
You'll see a list with the page id, name, category... I hope you will be able to identify your page more easily here. Once you have, you'll need to get the access_token for that page. Keep a record of it - we'll need it in a few minutes. You'll also need the page id.
Modify the following URL to include the parameters we got previously -
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/tabs?app_id=TAB_APP_ID&method=post&access_token=PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN
Navigate to that URL and if all goes well, you'll get a simple true message indicating that the action was successful.
I'm building a site that will allow sellers to:
list their products on my site
have each product link back to the seller's site
be charged for each link clicked
What I need to do now is to somehow make sure that I am only logging actual human users following the links to the sellers site. If it's a bot crawling the site, I shouldn't be charging the sellers for that.
Is there a way for me tell bots not to follow a certain link? I don't think it's nofollow as that is not intended to block access to content.
The way to tell a bot not to follow a link is precisely to add rel=nofollow to your <a> tag.
Assuming you are also logging locally before forwarding to the external url you could also check the user agent string.
In fact, if you are going to ask people to pay based on number of referrals it might be an idea to log IP address and user agent against each paid for click in case your stats are ever questioned.
You just add a [robots.txt] file, e.g. like this one.
You can find more info about [robots.txt] files on the net, e.g. in Wikipedia.
Typicall you can identify them by the user agent string. You can find a list here, can't say it's perferct, but it's a good base to extend: PHP/MySQL - an array filter for bots
Robots.txt is another way, more about it here