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ebeckerman
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August 15, 2024
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Referring Domain Confusion

  • August 15, 2024
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How exactly does referring domain work? If a third-party website doesn't have a link to the site I'm tracking, how would there be a lot of traffic capturing the 3rd party site as the referring domain?

Example with random fictional data:

Let's say we're looking at one month of data for my website, 'examplesite.com'.

Freeform table view:

Marketing Channel: Referring Domain | 10,000 visits

Marketing Channel Detail: thirdpartysite.com | 5,000 visits

 

How is 'thirdpartysite.com' contributing significant data if there are no links to my site, 'examplesite.com'?

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Melhor resposta por bjoern__koth

Hi @ebeckerman 

The referring domain can obviously only be set from Adobe Analytics if the information is present in the s.referrer property.

 

So, there must either be direct links from that domain OR redirects through that domain bringing traffic to your website.

 

which third party domain are we talking about? 

 

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/analytics/implementation/vars/page-vars/referrer#

 

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bjoern__koth
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Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
August 15, 2024

Hi @ebeckerman 

The referring domain can obviously only be set from Adobe Analytics if the information is present in the s.referrer property.

 

So, there must either be direct links from that domain OR redirects through that domain bringing traffic to your website.

 

which third party domain are we talking about? 

 

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/analytics/implementation/vars/page-vars/referrer#

 

Cheers from Switzerland!
    Krishna_Musku
    Community Advisor
    Krishna_MuskuCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    August 16, 2024

    @ebeckerman That thirdpartsite.com has link/links directing to your site, for which the thirdpartysite.com has showed in the marketing channel detail for referring domain.

      Krishna_Musku
      Community Advisor
      Krishna_MuskuCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      August 16, 2024

      If you don't have links directing to your site from thirdpartysite, then there might be some redirects happening.

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        ebeckermanAutor
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        August 16, 2024

        You can try looking at the full Referrer, but a lot of sites have started hiding the path, so only the domain (i.e. the home page url) is passed through the headers....

         

        You could try doing an advanced Google search:

         

        site:thirdpartsite.com examplesite.com

         

        Basically the "site:" designation will restrict the results to only thirdpartysite.com (make sure there is no space after the colon, it should be as a single block of text "site:domain.com" 

         

        You might have luck, you might not... we've had issues like this before too, and sometimes we can find the links, and other times we can't....


        I will try this - thank you!

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