The short answer is: You can't.The long answer is:There are browser
security restrictions that prevent messages and events from being passed
between the parent frame and an IFrame, especially when the IFrame loads
a page that is not in the same domain as the current web page. This is
to prevent all sorts of malicious attacks that I won't get into here.The
only way you can know what is happening in an IFrame that loads a
third-party page is if that third-party page posts "messages" back to
the pa...
An abnormal spike coupled with Typed/Bookmarked referrals (i.e. direct
traffic) and also with unusually large bounce rate sounds suspiciously
like bot traffic. If these are bots, then they wouldn't normally save
any cookies, let alone Adobe's visitor ID cookie. As a result, every hit
is essentially a "new" visit. And since bots also normally don't send
any document.referrer data, AA would then classify them as
Typed/Bookmarked referrals.
An abnormal spike coupled with Typed/Bookmarked referrals (i.e. direct
traffic) sounds suspiciously like bot traffic. If these are bots, then
they wouldn't normally save any cookies, let alone Adobe's visitor ID
cookie. As a result, every hit is essentially a "new" visit. And since
bots also normally don't send any document.referrer data, AA would then
classify them as Typed/Bookmarked referrals.
@c1553, I forgot to mention. If you're doing click tracking, s.tl(),
calls, you'll also need to set s.linkTrackVars string to include each
variable to send with the beacons, ref.E.g.s.linkTrackVars =
"propx,evary,evarz";
The ones that are found in almost every AA setup:DirectNatural
SearchPaid SearchEmailSocialReferralsInternal DomainsIf you're big in
advertising, then you might also have:DisplayPaid Social, i.e. from ads
that are run in Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. as opposed to the links in
postsIf you have affiliate marketing:AffiliateEverything else will be
business-specific. E.g. if you do a lot of outdoor advertising, maybe
you'd have:OutdoorPrintYou could also look into the existing Marketing
Channels report ...