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How to See The Full Referring URL in Google Analytics - By Jigar Pandya

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Google Analytics doesn¡¯t let you see from what specific page your visitors are coming from particular referral link Url.

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How to See the Full Referring URL in Google Analytics: Dated: 22/Oct/2012 Published on: http://seoahd.blogspot.in/2012/10/how-to-see-full-referring-url-in-ga.html Ans: How to extract the Referral URl like www.facebook.com/l.php To show the visit, from proper referral Url.. Google Analytics doesn¡¯t let you see from what specific page your visitors are coming from particular referral link Url. For example, instead of showing this as the traffic referrer: http://www.facebook.com/sharksaversespana/posts/360487370703726 It will just show you this: facebook.com/l.php That¡¯s not very useful information¡­ The solution to view the full URL of the referring site is to implement, We can use filters to place the referrer into the User Defined Report. To see the full URL, You need to set up the custom filter, For set up follow this Instructions: Go to your Google Analytics account (Click Admin) and click on Filter Manager > Add Filter, and enter the following information: Filter Name: Full Referrer (or whatever you want to call it) Filter Type: Custom Filter -> Advanced Field A -> Extract A: Referral (.*) Field B -> Extract B: leave blank Output To -> Constructor: User Defined $A1 Field A Required: Yes Field B Required: No Override Output Field: Yes Case Sensitive: No
It should look like this: Please look at your Traffic Sources, in GA, You frequently see like this:
Too see your User Defined Report With the full information about the referring sites, click on ¡°Content¡± in the secondary dimensions and choose ¡°User Defined Value¡±. You should get something like this: That¡¯s it! Pretty easy, yet very useful. - Jigar Pandya References: 1) http://www.sebastienpage.com/2009/05/06/google-analytics-trick-see-the-full- referring-url/ 2) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10282660/get-facebook-referral-url-in- google-analytics GA Help: http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py? hl=en&answer=1033863

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How to See The Full Referring URL in Google Analytics - By Jigar Pandya

  • 1. How to See the Full Referring URL in Google Analytics: Dated: 22/Oct/2012 Published on: http://seoahd.blogspot.in/2012/10/how-to-see-full-referring-url-in-ga.html Ans: How to extract the Referral URl like www.facebook.com/l.php To show the visit, from proper referral Url.. Google Analytics doesn¡¯t let you see from what specific page your visitors are coming from particular referral link Url. For example, instead of showing this as the traffic referrer: http://www.facebook.com/sharksaversespana/posts/360487370703726 It will just show you this: facebook.com/l.php That¡¯s not very useful information¡­ The solution to view the full URL of the referring site is to implement, We can use filters to place the referrer into the User Defined Report. To see the full URL, You need to set up the custom filter, For set up follow this Instructions: Go to your Google Analytics account (Click Admin) and click on Filter Manager > Add Filter, and enter the following information: Filter Name: Full Referrer (or whatever you want to call it) Filter Type: Custom Filter -> Advanced Field A -> Extract A: Referral (.*) Field B -> Extract B: leave blank Output To -> Constructor: User Defined $A1 Field A Required: Yes Field B Required: No Override Output Field: Yes Case Sensitive: No
  • 2. It should look like this: Please look at your Traffic Sources, in GA, You frequently see like this:
  • 3. Too see your User Defined Report With the full information about the referring sites, click on ¡°Content¡± in the secondary dimensions and choose ¡°User Defined Value¡±. You should get something like this: That¡¯s it! Pretty easy, yet very useful. - Jigar Pandya References: 1) http://www.sebastienpage.com/2009/05/06/google-analytics-trick-see-the-full- referring-url/ 2) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10282660/get-facebook-referral-url-in- google-analytics GA Help: http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py? hl=en&answer=1033863